Remote workers really should consider moving to college towns

Remote workers really should consider moving to college towns

The colleges that had to shut their doors were either tiny, little-known liberal arts colleges or for-profit schools that few would miss. The financial precarity of colleges and the massive increase in fully remote workers are preconditions that could result in a new symbiosis between remote workers and college towns. Without a corporate tether to expensive cities for industry superstars and their super-priced real estate, many remote-work converts—who are typically educated knowledge workers with disposable income—will seek to move elsewhere.