Pretty much all of those cities are high-cost-of-living. If you have the ability to work fully remote, why wouldn't you pick somewhere significantly cheaper, but had decent schools, good transportation links, and nice weather?
if you’re single, good schools don’t matter as much - i’d say most (single) people pick their next destination based on the size of the local dating pool.
Definitely. This is a huge reason most of the single remote workers I know haven't moved out to the country.
Gosh, how very odd: not one of the cities mentioned lies outside the USA. In reality you could probably do very much better by finding a place outside the US that offer much better quality of life, and where currency arbitrage makes that quality cheap.
Time zone might be a concern to some teams, but agreed outside US can be options to consider.
Taxes and other employment “fees” and rules present a problem to companies without apathetic appropriate tax nexus. They’ll make foreign hires of any nationality into contractors to offload the problems wherever possible. Not everybody wants to get to know an accountant that well.
I found it curious that many of the cities were high cost, and it seemed less interesting vs going to where space and population density was more favourable.
How the iPad turned “an appropriate” into “apathetic appropriate” escapes me. Sorry.