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Re:Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10k to ... by mxcrossb on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:15PM (#25106378)
> We've had over a thousand applicants just in the last two weeks alone. Over half of them are from California, many from the Bay Area

If the program isn’t new, I wonder what the total numbers are like since covid started. The article only mentioned 1000 people over two weeks (from all over the country)

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Re:Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10k to ... by throwawaygh on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:17PM (#25106395)
I have to imagine there have been A LOT more than 1000 Tulsa residents who left Tulsa for tech jobs in greener pastures over the last 20+ years.

This isn't an infusion of talent. It's probably a teeny tiny fraction of the brain drain returning to test the waters or, more likely, just to leverage grandparents for some free daycare while pandemic is on. And this is the high-point of interest.

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