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The Tulsa remote work experiment (a private foundation pays $10k for remote workers to move to Tulsa) seems to be working out well.

citylab.com/life/2020/02/t…

Two observations:
1) It seems straightforwardly obvious to me that every "second-tier" city in the US should bid and bid aggressively here, and that that decision is better the earlier you make it.

2) They talk about someone in the program being a "case worker" for new transplants to Tulsa.
Case workers are historically assigned to people in poverty, to assist them in navigating the relevant bureaucracies and provide some external high-functioning executive ability to help them achieve durably better outcomes. (Results are, well, mixed.)
Should we... should we have radically more case workers, deployed across the socioeconomic spectrum? Colleges seem to have proto-caseworkers, particularly if you present as being in distress.

I talk to a lot of younger people, and Adulting As A Service would go over well.
"That's not historically something the government does."

I know, I know, but just hypothetically speaking, if the government provides a basket of goods for the middle class, perhaps this is more attractive than some of the basket? Particularly in wake of demographic changes?
I also don't think it would necessarily have to be government.

There are specialists you can hire to e.g. integrate employees coming from abroad in their new life in America. (Due to hilarious circumstances, one such consultant was assigned to me.)
Plausibly there's some sort of offering, delivered in a relatively scaled fashion but with an actual human available somewhere, to onboard you to e.g. Chicago.

"What do you enjoy doing? Sketch comedy? Oh are you in the right city; let me set you up with an itinerary."
"What do they do?"

Do you need a bank account? I'll give you a recommendation and help you open one.

Searching for an apartment? Here's a briefing and some areas to look at plus an introduction to a broker.

Kids joining school? Here's briefing & checklist. Don't forget shots.
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