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Re: Tulsa Remote

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Post by TylerE »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #58
davidw wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Statewide aggregates are not always super useful. Portland, Oregon is really different from Burns, Oregon, for instance.

The Portland area would dominate the aggregate because they have 80-90% of the population. I mean, how many in tech are going to move to Pendleton anyways? I’ve heard Bend is kind of hot these days, but went through during a forest fire and wasn’t impressed. Oklahoma is a bit more balanced on population than Oregon.

Only a little more than half. Portland metro is 2.4M, state is 4.15M.

Re: Tulsa Remote

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Post by ajcodez »

ken wrote: post #41

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 mor…

I think it's target audience. If you're in late 20's early 30's and single it hints at a vibrant social life that could lead to a relationship. It's probably easier to move your single self than transition to a long distance relationship or move your whole family. The cash incentive too of $10k goes a lot further in your 20's.

Re: Tulsa Remote

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Post by geekone »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #55
moinnadeem wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> having a $20M Math and Science center let me go to places like MIT. No it didn't.

It sure looks like it has a crazy nice math and science center:

http://www.newson6.com/story/12523105/jenks-public-schools-b...

http://su2016.thedude.oucreate.com/uncategorized/jenks-high-...

Re: Tulsa Remote

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

TylerE wrote: post #61
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Portland area would dominate the aggregate because they have 80-90% of the population. I mean, how many in tech are going to move to Pendleton anyways? I’ve heard Bend is kind of hot these days, but went through during a forest fire and wasn’t impressed. Oklahoma is a bit more balanced on population than Oregon.

Only a little more than half. Portland metro is 2.4M, state is 4.15M.

It really depends on what you call the Portland area I guess. See https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7nz9fq/a_populatio...

I bet your number includes a few people in Washington if it’s the official Portland metro area one.

Re: Tulsa Remote

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Post by coryrc »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #55
moinnadeem wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> having a $20M Math and Science center let me go to places like MIT. No it didn't.

My school not having something like that led to me being unable to apply to MIT.

Re: Tulsa Remote

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Post by nodesocket »

> $10,000 cash.

One thing to note, the state income tax rate in Tulsa is 4.44%, so if your business makes $100,000 a year in profit, expect to pay around $4,500 in state taxes. I live in the great state of Tennessee with zero state income tax, and I'd much rather be in Nashville than Tulsa.

Re: Tulsa Remote

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Post by SteveNuts »

mrfusion wrote: post #54

Why not offer incentives to employers to create remote jobs? That’s really where the bottleneck is.

They don't necessarily want more remote workers, they want to attract workers that already have out-of-state jobs so they can collect the easy income tax and income from you living there.

Re: Tulsa Remote

#69

Post by walrus01 »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #60
walrus01 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Eastern Washington is kind of bland on everything but natural scrub scenery. Better to work in Vancouver without a state income tax and then shop in Portland without a sales tax.

it really depends where - a rural area outside of the tricities is going to be super dry, scrubby and bland... If you like mountains with real forests, go to north Okanogan county near the BC border, or Ferry or Stevens counties which are similar to northern Idaho.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ferry+county+wa&num=100&clie...

The area around Lake Chelan is nice but it get super hot in summer. Not Arizona or NM hot, but nearly.

https://www.google.com/search?q=lake+chelan+wa&num=100&clien...

Re: Tulsa Remote

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Post by dsl »

moinnadeem wrote: post #50
romed wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My high school having a brand new computer lab completely rebuilt every year, an agricultural sciences program that put most corn country colleges to shame, and a $xx million a year budget surplus let me drop out at 16.
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