And then there are people who are politically diametric to you who are also great employees; these you probably don’t need to sell the idea of residency as much.
Between these two groups, there are enough such people to sustain job markets in every state.
In the end, the best thing we can do is to insulate ourselves and our loved ones from government intervention, focus on local politics, and take control of our own consumption i.e. we can't rely on the government to do what's best for our children.
We should use these high paying remote jobs to buy nice homes with lots of space and access to good schools and healthcare. The rest of it will sort of work itself out.
And if we're being honest, climate change will get us before the government here can /shrug
Not in Hawaii. We have a weird blend of Democrat in name and somewhat Conservative and Liberal function almost everywhere in the state.
I chuckle whenever any one claims Democrats are liberals. They clearly haven't been to our meetings.
The only thing Democrats agree on is opposing Republicans. And even that isn't a hard rule.
After that, policy wise, we fight about everything. No issue, or point of fact, too small to start a blood feud over.
We feel that way too! So why don't you leave us alone? (If you hadn't noticed its not 1992 and nobody is trying to teach your kids abstinence-only education anymore.)
In fact there are still places teaching abstinence-only education and I'm pretty sure that trying to keep the existence of LGBTQ people from being mentioned is not a huge step forward.
Sorry, I don’t understand. Who is “we” and “you” in this scenario and what are “we” doing to bother “you”?
What’s up with people throwing “bad faith” around lately? Did some sort of memo go around?
> Forgive my language, but what utter crap. It's a vaccine against a deadly and contagious virus.
I’m not talking about vaccines. The person I was responding to made a more general point about rural areas versus urban areas and localism. I was agreeing with him.
The future is FEMA
I dunno what to tell you. After touring almost all of our great states, the only constant seems to be that you get what your neighbors vote for.
As I consider if climate extremes are likely to keep getting worse, upstate New York or Vermont are seeming more and more viable to me.
New Hampshire's state motto is "live free or die." If you die in New Hampshire, it's probably because someone else was living free.
I can go buy magic mushrooms here, but in so-called Freedomland you can't even eat what you want. Whacky.
I moved to Texas for a short while and hoo boy, Austin is nice, but the peeps in Texas really love to tell the government to tread on them. You can't even get weed brownies here. Talk about big government.
Says who? The median American lives 18 miles away from their mom.
EDIT: fellow Albertans feel free to email me on my profile (lots of us here!)
I've got a kid, though, so I'm currently trying to assess where we can afford to move that inspires confidence that we can really build something there. If we have to go, I don't wanna move again before she goes to college in a decade.
Whether this will be comfortable for you or not I can’t say. But I can tell you that it’s worth checking out.
Alternately, ensure they have sufficient pay and benefits to ignore the GOP restrictions and then hope they help vote them out.
> How can I ask people who work for me to live here?
Frankly, there is already enough demand and highly qualified people moving here.
P.S. I'm really into music and Nashville's music scene is very appealing, despite the state politics. So I'm definitely conflicted.
I also live in Tennessee but have been a remote worker for a decade. I deeply disagree with the politics of this place but you know, family's here.
I think they just think they are right, regardless of if their claims are backed by evidence or care / concern for secondary consequences like you are describing.
Flip the seats. If only it were so simple.
P.S. Check out how cringe the Tennessee "quality of life" page reads. Three clicks off of the homepage of TN.gov.
TLDR: Tennessee, "we keep it cheap"
How can I ask people who work for me to live here?