By PATRICK MAY | Orange County Register
It’s the talk of the town these days: With a booming job market pushing real-estate prices through the roof, jamming freeways and making the most quotidian of tasks seem downright wearisome, a lot of California residents are either heading for the exits or are already gone.
Consider the San Jose Mercury News’ story this week of the startup offering to pay residents $10,000 to pull up roots and leave town. Why? As a way to get workers to move to more affordable places around the country, then pair them up with companies that can’t afford the bottom-line-busting salaries typical across the high-cost Golden State.
Still, while the company, called MainStreet, might be pushing Californians out, some states, cities and towns across the nation are pulling in the other direction, offering benefits of all kinds and cold hard cash to bring in the recently uprooted.
Here are some of them:
Tulsa, Oklahoma
In an effort to bring new blood into town and increase its workforce, this Oklahoma city is coughing up $10,000 a person to get people to move there and work remotely for the employer they already had. It’s the second year of the Tulsa Remote program, says Fast Company magazine, and it’s also offering these new residents free co-working space, invites to local events and leads on finding housing…
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