it's not a solution to the housing crisis. It's a solution for a minority of the professional class who have the opportunity to work remotely. The majority of workers in large urban areas don't fall into this demographic, blue collar and white collar service sector workers won't be able to work across the country.

Not to mention that it'll be interesting to see what happens during the next recession when some of those people are let off and all the remote workers in Boise are a mismatch for the local economy. Which they already arguably are because as the article points out their purchasing power keeps spiking local prices without bringing in local investment and business.

The article attributes some of the shift to remote work, which would seem to be related to tech?

the move somewhere else crowd has always been there

they just don't fit the empathic narrative that tech media prefers to elevate