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Re:Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, ... by burger_moon on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:45PM (#11990116)
This is something that has existed before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

I've lived in 'man camps' on remote jobs where it was easier to just put up trailers for workers than put them all in hotels. Or sometimes there isn't any temporary housing options available so you get to stay in the man camp. Pretty sure programmers aren't going to fall into line for that option though.

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Re:Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, ... by superuser2 on Monday June 27, 2016 @07:25PM (#11990316)
This wouldn't be remote, though - there'd be a few dozen such company towns on overlapping geography. True, you'd need to move to change employers, but it could just be across the street.
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