A Tulsa, Oklahoma, initiative to increase its tax base by offering $10,000 for the relocation of remote workers to the city has—five years later—proven successful, according to a financial report (pdf).
Justin Harlan, managing director of Tulsa Remote, said the program was implemented to “reverse the ‘brain drain’ from small and mid-sized cities.”
“Tulsa, with a metro area of about one million people, has an aging population with an economy dominated by oil and gas extraction (a volatile industry in the best of times) and manufacturing,” Harlan said. “Like many midsize heartland cities, Tulsa has been overlooked by the knowledge economy sector of high-tech companies and their high-paying jobs, which are concentrated in coastal enclaves.”…