Title's a bit misleading. There's only one "offer" for $20K and it's only for police offers for some place called Jackson Michigan. Nothing about minorities, solely for police offers willing to relocate to that specific city in michigan, which isn't super big, but it isn't rural either since the county has over 160K people in it. More of a midsize suburban area.
That's the second largest "incentive" on the website. $17,100 to move to texarkana in Texas/Arkansas. BUT it's not actually $17,100.
$5K cash, a bunch of one year memberships for local clubs, college discounts for the local college, a "meal with the mayor", and a bunch of memberships that literally no one cares about like "Membership to the Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council".
That's the general breakdown for most of these "incentives" a very small amount of cash, and then a lot of crap no one cares about. And I've yet to so anything specifically targetting minorities over whites or rural areas in general. In fact, most of these places are midscale cities/suburbs.
Strangely enough, like 90% of the places on the website are in Indiana. Very few of them are outside of Indiana, and when they are, like I said, they're a midscale city/suburb.
I will be fair though I DID find ONE example claiming to actually give $10K in cash.
But West Memphis is a liberal craphole anyway, and it's not majority white, it's majority black. And it also led me to discover another trend with most of the places on this website.
Most of these places, with a few notable exceptions, like an entry for Tulsa OK, are dying. They're populations have been decreasing for decades because no one wants to live in a midscale, usually liberal, craphole where it's not big enough to offer any kind of urban convenience, but it's big enough that you get all of the "big city problems" (crime, traffic, excessive taxes, housing, etc.)
That's why they're trying to do stupid stuff like this to boost their populations. They're trying to maintain their populations because with reduced populations, comes reduced tax base, and it makes it harder to cheat in elections.
For the record, from what I can tell, it's not like people are moving completely out of the area, it's just that they're moving like a county over or something, so they're still in the area, probably still working the same jobs, but most of their taxes are going to surrounding areas, which is why these cities are desperate for new people.
TL;DR: Basically, the title's wrong. The actual cash being offered is much lower in most cases, and most of these places aren't rural, but midscale cities/suburbs with gradually dying populations.
I've lived within a major city, in suburbia, in semi-rural and now very rural.
The further away from a major metro area, the more difficult life is (unless you're independently wealthy). You have to have more than basic life skills and do things yourself because you either can't afford to hire, or can't find to hire, people to help you.
These areas are historically white, and they remain so partially because of generational knowledge transfer, and the lack of knowledge that those raised in metro areas have. That happens to align by race a lot of the time, but I doubt there's anything inherently racist.
The legal immigrants from Latin America do seem to fit in well, at least in our area, and are readily accepted into the community. But many are from rural areas themselves - they already possess the right life skills and outlook to succeed.
I will say that plenty of wipeepo fail at transitioning to rural living. We can usually spot them at the outset, although every once in awhile someone will surprise us and adapt. But neither instance is a newsworthy event or part of a desired narrative.
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Ralph Klein is that you?
Title's a bit misleading. There's only one "offer" for $20K and it's only for police offers for some place called Jackson Michigan. Nothing about minorities, solely for police offers willing to relocate to that specific city in michigan, which isn't super big, but it isn't rural either since the county has over 160K people in it. More of a midsize suburban area.
Most of the offers are FAR lower, and even then, they're not all cash offers. For example: https://www.makemymove.com/get-paid/texarkana-usa
That's the second largest "incentive" on the website. $17,100 to move to texarkana in Texas/Arkansas. BUT it's not actually $17,100.
$5K cash, a bunch of one year memberships for local clubs, college discounts for the local college, a "meal with the mayor", and a bunch of memberships that literally no one cares about like "Membership to the Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council".
That's the general breakdown for most of these "incentives" a very small amount of cash, and then a lot of crap no one cares about. And I've yet to so anything specifically targetting minorities over whites or rural areas in general. In fact, most of these places are midscale cities/suburbs.
Strangely enough, like 90% of the places on the website are in Indiana. Very few of them are outside of Indiana, and when they are, like I said, they're a midscale city/suburb.
I will be fair though I DID find ONE example claiming to actually give $10K in cash.
https://www.makemymove.com/get-paid/west-memphis-arkansas
But West Memphis is a liberal craphole anyway, and it's not majority white, it's majority black. And it also led me to discover another trend with most of the places on this website.
Most of these places, with a few notable exceptions, like an entry for Tulsa OK, are dying. They're populations have been decreasing for decades because no one wants to live in a midscale, usually liberal, craphole where it's not big enough to offer any kind of urban convenience, but it's big enough that you get all of the "big city problems" (crime, traffic, excessive taxes, housing, etc.)
That's why they're trying to do stupid stuff like this to boost their populations. They're trying to maintain their populations because with reduced populations, comes reduced tax base, and it makes it harder to cheat in elections.
For the record, from what I can tell, it's not like people are moving completely out of the area, it's just that they're moving like a county over or something, so they're still in the area, probably still working the same jobs, but most of their taxes are going to surrounding areas, which is why these cities are desperate for new people.
TL;DR: Basically, the title's wrong. The actual cash being offered is much lower in most cases, and most of these places aren't rural, but midscale cities/suburbs with gradually dying populations.
Came in to point this out. Better said than I would have.
I've lived within a major city, in suburbia, in semi-rural and now very rural.
The further away from a major metro area, the more difficult life is (unless you're independently wealthy). You have to have more than basic life skills and do things yourself because you either can't afford to hire, or can't find to hire, people to help you.
These areas are historically white, and they remain so partially because of generational knowledge transfer, and the lack of knowledge that those raised in metro areas have. That happens to align by race a lot of the time, but I doubt there's anything inherently racist.
The legal immigrants from Latin America do seem to fit in well, at least in our area, and are readily accepted into the community. But many are from rural areas themselves - they already possess the right life skills and outlook to succeed.
I will say that plenty of wipeepo fail at transitioning to rural living. We can usually spot them at the outset, although every once in awhile someone will surprise us and adapt. But neither instance is a newsworthy event or part of a desired narrative.
Too late! Already happened. My little town added 45 in past two years. Only half speak English. Population was only 187.
Did the "newcomers" move into existing homes or was there new construction?
Old homes. Fixer-uppers. We haven't had a new building built here in 50 years.