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These 9 Places in America Will Pay You to Move There

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:51AM   
from the free-money dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

They'll pay you upfront, but will you pay for the rest of your life?

While 54% of Americans lived in rural places in 1910, that number fell to 19 percent by 2010, Zillow reported. To revive their communities, these places are hoping that everything from cash grants to paying off student loans and giving away free land will help draw a younger generation to them.

But it's not just small towns that hope to draw more people to them with these programs. Some cities like Baltimore and even entire states like Alaska will pay you to be their newest resident.

Tribune, Kansas will pay off $15,000 of your student loans. Marne, Iowa will give you free land if you build a house that's at least 1,200 ft² on it. Baltimore, Maryland will give you a $5,000, 5yr forgivable loan and $10,000 down payment toward rehabilitating abandoned homes.

Tempted?

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• Re:An interesting offer, but ... (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Saturday November 11 2017, @01:04PM

  by c0lo (156) on Saturday November 11 2017, @01:04PM (#595569) Journal

  Will there be a lot of high paying job for academic types around Tribune? $15k is nice and all but it probably isn't the entirety of the debt that has to be somehow repaid. I think this might be the issue with a lot of these offers, there won't be jobs out there. So either you better be self-employed, a job you can do from home, retired or already rich.

  Yeap, teacher at the Sunday scho... sorry, head of religious studies at the Humanities Academy of Tribune, Kansas.

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