$10,000 in cash plus a mountain bike to go live in NW R-Kansas:







plus a bunch more cities/locations







Anyone considering relocating in anticipation of retirement or just to get out of the expensive city, could be a way to score some extra cash for the move.

tbf, most all of these places are shitholes that are gonna have to do better than a few thou after taxes and a bicycle to get anyone to move to. But could be the start of a trend and maybe other cities will jump in with some real incentives.

Scanning a few of them it sounds like staying for 2 years is the requirement. An itinerant sort with minimal possessions could hop from locale to locale, picking up cash along the way. If you have a bunch of shit to move, it's not gonna be worth it to keep moving around.

The NWA program is pretty restrictive and I think something like only 1% of applicants get approved because so many have applied. They are looking at people from tech fields and have made a concerted effort to target Austin with it as people see Austin becoming more unaffordable.

They honestly don't even need that program to attract people, the metro is on track to hit 1,000,000 people between 2040-2045. They're just doing this to draw specific skill sets here.

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Evidently Montpelier, Vermont, is paying people $10,000 to relocate there. It's a very nice town with some terrifice Victorian-era houses and close proximity to beautiful hiking trails/swimming holes/cliff jumping spots and an amazing beer scene (10 minutes from Waterbury/Stowe and the best bar in Vermont, the Blackback; 30-35 minutes from Burlington and Foam/BBC/Four Quarters, etc). Only one problem: no telecommuting, and you have to work at an area business. I have no idea what most people do out there to earn a living. Still, highly recommended!

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Wonder if you could skirt it by telecommuting 9-5 and then picking up a couple shifts at a brew pub on weekends or seasonal work at a ski resort or something.

They should hit Nashville with some marketing. I was down there last month to help some friends sort out housing for an upcoming move. Nashville rental market has gone off the rails; you can't find anything under around $2K a month for a 2 bedroom. And that's for a basic college apartment type situation. They'd have to spend closer to $3K a month to get any place livable. They ended up delaying their move to give em time to get approved for a low down-payment mortgage and buy a place, less monthly than any of the rentals. $3K+ a month for a rental that isn't in NY or SF is insane.

Migrants from California, the East coast and Upper Midwest moving to Nashville have driven up real estate prices and maxed out rental occupancy. Even when houses go on the market, you have to compete with AirBnB investors who snatch up any property close to downtown. With AirBnB rates being several hundred a night for a multi-occupancy place, all you need is to have it occupied one 4 night minimum weekend a month to cover the mortgage. The other weekends end up being profit. A lot of them don't advertise availability during the week. Too difficult to turn the places over after bachelorette parties and other groups of tourists spend a weekend reliving their college days in your AirBnB. So you have large swath of housing that sits empty Tuesday to Thursday.

Rent commiseration threads pop up on nashville reddit monthly.

Nashville fuckery has inspired this SlackersLaboratory fella to post sj perelman style dispatches
from East Nashville:



https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/comm ... tch_vol_6/

previous dispatches by the same author: