What’s the draw to get tech workers to migrate there, other than lower home prices? Seems like a notable decline in quality of life compared to their soon to be closed hubs.
The only people taking this deal are either at a career inflection point or completely trapped.
Ozarks are beautiful but that's gotta be a total culture shock. Biggest issue is - what do you do when you want to leave Walmart? You'll have to move again, or work remotely.
I’m sure there are a lot of nice things but what happens when you and Walmart split ways? There’s not a ton of other employers so you’re back to remote work. So then why even move there in the first place?
There are some other good things happening here and there in that area, like Fayetteville getting rid of arbitrary, expensive, parking requirements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhOFUQDLQk
Also Walmart was a major sponsor of the Cyclocross World Championships last year. https://www.cyclocrossfayettevillear2022.com/
A US military vet once told me that "the base has good hunting and fishing" is code for "it's in the middle of nowhere".
Source: I live in Encinitas on the edge of the border with Carlsbad.
Bentonville is us in northwest Arkansas, right in the Ozarks, I wouldn’t really consider it in the same boat with the rest of the state. I hear it’s actually a nice place to live if you can bare living in a red state (which, these days, has lots of legal drawbacks).