Should Cities Pay People to Move In?
“A place like Tulsa is big enough to have all the amenities that I wanted from a big city — it just doesn’t have any duplicates,” Holk says. “If you want your ‘80s-themed video-game barcade, we’ve got one. We just don’t have three.” Tulsa Remote, as Next City previously reported, is a program launched by the George Kaiser Family Foundation that offers money to young remote workers to entice them to make Tulsa home. In the year following its launch, the program got 10,000 applicants. Now, says Ben Stewart, the program’s executive director, more than 50,000 people have app...
Source: nextcity.org