71 Cities and Towns Are Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. It’s Working.

A growing number of U.S. cities and towns are handing out cash grants and other perks aimed at drawing skilled employees of faraway companies to live there and work remotely. Such programs gained traction during the pandemic and have really taken off in just the past year or so. There were at least 24 such programs in the U.S. back in October. Today there are 71, highlighting MakeMyMove's continued work contracting cities and towns to set up such programs.