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  • Blu82
    Blu82 Member Posts: 1,673
    Bloomberg is spot on as it relates to our neighborhood. Most homes here are 2nd or vacation homes and folks visiting for the summer have no intention of leaving this year.
    If you are a nanny or a retired teacher looking to do some tutoring you are a hot commodity right now. Also, our small town is looking forward to their financial shot in the arm this is going to provide.
    Private schools are swamped with applications.
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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,042 Standard Supporter
    Baseman said:

    doogie said:

    My oldest started a new position at a Big software co. in Feb. He manages a large highly visible project with teams of engineers. Hasn’t been to the office once.

    He’s recently begun shopping for waterfront homes in more remote areas reflecting what he calls the new norm.

    I’m hearing more businesses are allowing employees to keep bottles in their office desk drawers. “It’s no big deal,” one with knowledge said “everybody does it.”
    My office has a fridge full of beer in the conference room.

    ‘Cause we’re all about transparency.
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    None of this helps me as a male hooker.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,121 Founders Club
    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    Tequilla said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    doogie said:

    My oldest started a new position at a Big software co. in Feb. He manages a large highly visible project with teams of engineers. Hasn’t been to the office once.

    He’s recently begun shopping for waterfront homes in more remote areas reflecting what he calls the new norm.

    I apologize I don’t have the KOMO4 link at the ready, but I read the Facebooks and Microsofts of the world are starting to be open to letting their employees LEAVE! mega-expensive Silicon Valley and Seattle to work/live wherever they want. It makes total sense. (Though I’m curious if they’ll try to fuck them over salary wise by saying “oh, you don’t have a high cost of living anymore.”)
    They absolutely will

    If companies were smart they'd completely embrace this as a means of driving down labor costs as not only can they re-index compensation for people that live elsewhere, but as the costs in major cities drop, it will result in a lower indexing there as well.
    Teq right, as labor demands lower prices salaries will reflect that. Actually a good thing long term for the US competitively but probably not for big US cities.

    The Renaissance of US small towns will accelerate from having a microbrewery and coffee roaster to having tech workers and distance workers etc.

    We are going to see urban decay and flight the same as before but at an accelerated pace. Sure doesn't seem like we learned anything politically from history as dem controlled cities are enacting the same self defeating policies.

    This *might be the cure for small and medium sized cities in the rust belt if they position themselves correctly.
    your last sentence is so intriguing
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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,650 Founders Club
    DerekJohnson said:

    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    Tequilla said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    doogie said:

    My oldest started a new position at a Big software co. in Feb. He manages a large highly visible project with teams of engineers. Hasn’t been to the office once.

    He’s recently begun shopping for waterfront homes in more remote areas reflecting what he calls the new norm.

    I apologize I don’t have the KOMO4 link at the ready, but I read the Facebooks and Microsofts of the world are starting to be open to letting their employees LEAVE! mega-expensive Silicon Valley and Seattle to work/live wherever they want. It makes total sense. (Though I’m curious if they’ll try to fuck them over salary wise by saying “oh, you don’t have a high cost of living anymore.”)
    They absolutely will

    If companies were smart they'd completely embrace this as a means of driving down labor costs as not only can they re-index compensation for people that live elsewhere, but as the costs in major cities drop, it will result in a lower indexing there as well.
    Teq right, as labor demands lower prices salaries will reflect that. Actually a good thing long term for the US competitively but probably not for big US cities.

    The Renaissance of US small towns will accelerate from having a microbrewery and coffee roaster to having tech workers and distance workers etc.

    We are going to see urban decay and flight the same as before but at an accelerated pace. Sure doesn't seem like we learned anything politically from history as dem controlled cities are enacting the same self defeating policies.

    This *might be the cure for small and medium sized cities in the rust belt if they position themselves correctly.
    your last sentence is so intriguing
    Low cost of living and real estate. Existing and under utilized airports and infrastructure for those couple of in person meetings in LA or NY.

    The trouble is going to be the Dem legacy of fucking that all up with Government.
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