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Re: Tulsa Remote

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Post by ken »

Remote workers already know they can live anywhere, and $10K is nice but for a professional software engineer it's not that great. So while I'm not looking to move, I'm curious what they're using to entice me to want to live there.

What I see is ... a whole lot of drinking-related activities. "Experience" Oktoberfest, "Toast" at lots of bars, "Hang Out" at lots of other bars, "Brew" more beer. I wonder if this is more a reflection of what's in Tulsa, or who their target audience is.

Re: Tulsa Remote

#42

Post by walrus01 »

xvedejas wrote: post #22
dougmwne wrote: post #14

Both Oklahoma and Vermont have close to a 5% state income tax on the first 100k of income, so for many on HN, this is more like a rebate on state income taxes over the first 2 years. I guess if you always dreamed of moving to these places this could be that little nudge to finally try it out.

This means that states without income tax (WA, NV, TX, TN etc) are yet still more enticing for most high-earning professionals. I agree with other commenters saying this doesn't do much except help the people who always were considering moving to OK/VT.

If you want to work remote AND live in a very quiet area, there are some nice rural areas of WA state... Remote parts of Chelan and Okanogan counties. Mountains, snow, forests, fruit farms, etc.

Re: Tulsa Remote

#43

Post by romed »

mrkurt wrote: post #30
prestonbriggs wrote: post #23

I have a sister who recently bought a house in Tulsa. Their house is so large it's got rooms she's forgotten about... Pretty new, pool, nice neighborhood. Cost less than $300K. I don't know about the school district (Jenks). I'd sure like to see some progressive voters move down there.

I went to Jenks! Not sure that helps you decide good vs bad though. :D

Oklahoma public schools have gone downhill so rapidly that past experience is unfortunately no guide to the present.

Re: Tulsa Remote

#44

Post by romed »

Twirrim wrote: post #26

Admittedly this is aggregate for the whole state: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma Overall Rank Out of 50: #43 Health Care #48 Education #39 Economy #36 Opportunity #38 Infrastructure #31 Crime & Corrections #34 Fiscal Stability #22 Quality of Life #17 Those aren't great incentives for people with families to want to move. Might be more tolerable for younger folks? Of course, getting fresh tax revenue…

You left off teen fertility rate.

Re: Tulsa Remote

#45

Post by damon_c »

Twirrim wrote: post #26

Admittedly this is aggregate for the whole state: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma Overall Rank Out of 50: #43 Health Care #48 Education #39 Economy #36 Opportunity #38 Infrastructure #31 Crime & Corrections #34 Fiscal Stability #22 Quality of Life #17 Those aren't great incentives for people with families to want to move. Might be more tolerable for younger folks? Of course, getting fresh tax revenue…

You'd think "Quality of Life" would have a little more weight... I mean... what else is there?!

Re: Tulsa Remote

#46

Post by damon_c »

damon_c wrote: post #45
Twirrim wrote: post #26

Admittedly this is aggregate for the whole state: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma Overall Rank Out of 50: #43 Health Care #48 Education #39 Economy #36 Opportunity #38 Infrastructure #31 Crime & Corrections #34 Fiscal Stability #22 Quality of Life #17 Those aren't great incentives for people with families to want to move. Might be more tolerable for younger folks? Of course, getting fresh tax revenue…

You'd think "Quality of Life" would have a little more weight... I mean... what else is there?!

Whoa. The #1 state in this report is Iowa. Hmm. Maybe time to... check out Iowa.

Re: Tulsa Remote

#47

Post by synaesthesisx »

thatcloudguy wrote: post #13
Forge36 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tulsa wants your tax income. If Tulsa can make it attractive, and a person's cost of living is reduced some people may take them up on the offer. Since many remote works choose where to live, a paid opportunity to move could be an ideal situation. Tulsa has made an offer, that you aren't interested does not mean Tulsa is desperate.

But in actual fact, they are desperate. Property values are dropping, they can't attract people to live there because it's an exceptionally boring place to live.

Exactly - the catch is, you have to live in Tulsa...

Re: Tulsa Remote

#48

Post by SamReidHughes »

damon_c wrote: post #46
damon_c wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd think "Quality of Life" would have a little more weight... I mean... what else is there?!

Whoa. The #1 state in this report is Iowa. Hmm. Maybe time to... check out Iowa.

Surely using some index devised by soulless accountants that never heard of snow.

Re: Tulsa Remote

#49

Post by [deleted] »

buboard wrote: post #32
rmason wrote: post #2

I predict this is going to start a trend. For a whole lot less than the $48,000 a job municipalities paid to attract Amazon why not spend a fifth of that and draw in thousands of remote workers?

If that becomes a trend, more exotic destinations will be far more attractive. At least, that's what happening with the young demographic of nomads.

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Re: Tulsa Remote

#50

Post by moinnadeem »

romed wrote: post #43
mrkurt wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went to Jenks! Not sure that helps you decide good vs bad though. :D

Oklahoma public schools have gone downhill so rapidly that past experience is unfortunately no guide to the present.

Jenks High School class of 2016, MIT class of 2020. Honestly, Jenks was an incredible high school to go to since it was public; having a $20M Math and Science center let me go to places like MIT.
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