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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?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday November 11 2017, @01:36PM (9 children)
Don't rural regions generally have bad internet connections? This should severely limit the types of jobs you can do from home.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 11 2017, @02:05PM (7 children)
ssh generally doesn't need that much bandwidth. I'm good.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:47PM (3 children)
Hope you never land a gig that involves video editing, gaming, high frequency trading, or any other bandwidth intensive job.
You short sighted ignorant moron.
(Score: 5, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:53PM (2 children)
Me too. They sound like miserable ways to live.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:39PM (1 child)
Yeah you love the taste of cock and advertising your cocksucking service on craigslist doesn't use nearly any bandwidth at all.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:06PM
Capitalism, baby. Gotta love it. Sometimes even literally.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Saturday November 11 2017, @07:45PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @01:16AM
Many businesses need to have the occasional meeting, but in most cases using project management software should remove the need for an actual meeting. There are definitely companies out there that don't do meetings at all, they handle all of the information sharing and prioritization over project management software and email. And, it's really best for everybody if you don't have a meeting unless you absolutely have to. Getting everybody out of work in order to attend is a real pain.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Monday November 13 2017, @12:08AM
Tunneling RDP, VNC RFB, X11, SFTP, or mysqldump over SSH can need quite a bit of throughput in some cases. SSH for anything interactive also needs low latency, which satellite doesn't provide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @08:27PM
Can't speak for anywhere but here in Meigs County, Ohio (verrrrry rural) and we have Suddenlink 10GB cable intenet and crappy Frontier DSL.