I've created a Google Sheet to list these programs. Got three so far. Please feel free to add any that you know of.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ahY6cI0CJVbK9PRNIkjh...
A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD
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#32One of the program requirements is that you buy a house there and live in it for five years.
That actually explains a lot. They are trying to expand their tax base. The improvements stipend will allow them to assess the property at a higher value!
Yes I would guess this is to try and encourage remote workers to move there, would be a valuable influx
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
With Starlink, this question is getting less important. Loads of my family in N. Georgia have started using it and it's crazy how much better it is than the local competition
Starlink still sucks for remote work. Every time the satellites switch there is a slight disconnection, causing interruption to Zoom meetings.
I'm sure but for people who haven't had any better, it's like the second coming of Christ. lol
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
With Starlink, this question is getting less important. Loads of my family in N. Georgia have started using it and it's crazy how much better it is than the local competition
Starlink still sucks for remote work. Every time the satellites switch there is a slight disconnection, causing interruption to Zoom meetings.
I've been on Starlink since it was first commercially available (I got lucky) so I've seen a lot of changes over the years, and this did used to happen pretty regularly, but it has improved quite a bit. I don't know if Starlink fixed it or if Zoom did, but it's much better. Google Meet has handled these hiccups like a champ for a while and has gotten so good it seems like magic.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Starlink still sucks for remote work. Every time the satellites switch there is a slight disconnection, causing interruption to Zoom meetings.
I'm sure but for people who haven't had any better, it's like the second coming of Christ. lol
Yes, it one of the best thing that has happened in many, many years, excluding the birth of kids. It made living where we live viable in an age of remote meetings.
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#36Mining towns are one of the examples of human hubris and stupidity I can't get my head around. If you build something in a shitty place just because there is a single resource you can sell, and everything else you have to import, then what do you expect will happen when said resource dries up? These places were meant for people to go temporarily, make serious money, and then go back to the city or countryside to buil…
Cumberland was founded as a fort and a transportation hub first and only later became a mining town.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also has an Amtrak station!
How many trains a day?
Not even one per day as far as I can tell.
The Amtrack website also mentions:
Known as Maryland's “Queen City,” Cumberland was an early gateway to the West. Today, it is a bustling arts center and popular stopover for cyclists using the trail network between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
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#38One of the program requirements is that you buy a house there and live in it for five years.
But houses there cost about a nickel.
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#39As a native Marylander I always find myself forgetting about Cumberland, which is a shame. As someone who has mostly lived in and around Baltimore, you head west to Frederick (aka Fredneck) for the small city in the middle of rural farmland. If you keep heading west you get to Hagerstown which feels way out there in farm country. And if you keep heading west you eventually move from farms to mountains and you hit Cum…
>I don’t know the best way to revive a place like that but I hope something eventually works.
You don’t. Times change, and what used to provide utility may no longer provide utility, and the only option is to move on.
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#40I honestly do not get such programs, I'm from EU where equivalent programs exists in slightly different form (1€ old and abandoned homes for sale) and that's a total stupid initiative because people face MUCH bigger costs and still have no potential development in place.
Instead of proposing such gifts state a complete development programs: how do you count to augment the population enough to create room for a local bustling economy? A possible timeline and the current state of things? Tell me about local climate, hydro-geological stability, pollution and so on. You want people, convince them to be part of you project do not "buy them with candies". Convincing people to be part of a project means finding (if you succeed, of course) active people who can bring value to your community, otherwise you might collect some fool who will go soon or will remain as a burden to the community.