Oh The Places You Thought You'd Go (Airdate 3/11/2024)
The Oddcast Podcast
Now! Media | Bob & Sheri
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Today's Oddcast - Oh The Places You Thought You'd Go (Airdate 3/11/2024)
Where did you dream of living as a kid? Did you ever make it there? Not only do we look at where we wish we could've gone, we reflect on the places where we still hope to live someday.
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| 0:00.0 | There are communities all over America that are trying to attract people, bringing in new blood, |
| 0:06.9 | you know, new industry, new creativity, new entrepreneurs, and they're paying people to move there, |
| 0:13.9 | which is an interesting idea because I bet a lot of us, maybe even most of us, daydream about a place that we'd like to live, a place we thought we would live someday. But for most of us, that never happens. We always have an odd woman in the crowd. So it's kind of odd. We're just sightedly odd. And that strike you as a little bit odd. No, it doesn't strike me as a little bit odd. It's the Bob and Sherry oddcast with stuff we wouldn't, couldn't, or shouldn't do on the regular show. Now, here's the |
| 0:43.4 | oddcast. So it kind of was really accentuated by the COVID quarantines. You know, people discovered |
| 0:52.8 | that if they were going to be fully remote workers, |
| 0:55.5 | they could work anywhere, which meant they could live anywhere. |
| 0:59.0 | And so a pretty significant number of people moved during the COVID quarantine because they |
| 1:06.2 | could. |
| 1:07.1 | Like maybe your job was in Trenton, New Jersey, but your whole life, all you wanted to do was live in Montana. |
| 1:14.4 | Suddenly you could, and a lot of people did. |
| 1:17.7 | And there are communities out there in America that would like to attract remote workers. |
| 1:24.5 | And people that aren't remote workers, people that might start businesses or contribute |
| 1:28.6 | to local industries. Like the state of West Virginia has a program called Ascend, and they have a |
| 1:34.6 | handful of Ascend communities, and they will not only give you cash money to go live there, but you |
| 1:40.9 | get all sorts of cool stuff, like free zip line passes and tickets to museums |
| 1:46.1 | and that sort of thing. Tulsa, Oklahoma has a program called Tulsa Remote. It was the first |
| 1:52.7 | program of its kind, offering remote workers and entrepreneurs 10 grand to move to Tulsa. Just stay for a |
| 1:59.6 | year. That's all they said. Please just stay for a year. |
| 2:02.7 | Well, 2,900 people accepted that deal. And those people have so far generated over $300 million |
| 2:11.3 | in direct employment income. So Tulsa is really happy about it. Indianapolis has a program where, I'm sorry, |
| 2:20.6 | Indiana has a program where they want you to, it's called Make My Move, and they want you to come |
| 2:27.1 | to Noblesville, which is a suburb of Indianapolis. They want you to come to Evansville, Indiana. |
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