Re:Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?
by pbourke on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:11AM
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The post you responded to said they'd consider moving to "WA. No state tax. Nice nature.". You then pointed out problems in downtown Seattle. I'm not here from the Committee to Get Everyone To Open A Business In Seattle, Minneapolis Or Chicago. I'm a part-time member of the Committee To Not Generalize About A Whole State Based On Stuff That Happens In A Few Square Blocks In One City.
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Re:Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?
by cableshaft on Friday August 14, 2020 @06:54PM
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Yeah, the suburbs of Chicago and most of the rest of the state of Illinois have pretty much been calm. Almost entirely peaceful protests, with the exception of a couple of suburbs for a few nights at the height of the national unrest, but nowhere near the same level as Chicago proper.
You can still move to the suburbs here and get a reasonable house at a fraction of the cost of Silicon Valley (Well, in most of them. If you want a super pricy home, there are a few suburbs for you here too also), and it's about as safe as anywhere else.
But the state is broke and the tax burden is still one of the highest in the nation, so we still have more people leaving than coming in as a whole.