Tulsa, Oklahoma started trying to attract new residents by paying people ten thousand dollars to move to the city. 2,400 people have moved to Tulsa through this program and today we are gonna meet some of them. The New Yorker who realized what she'd been missing. The longtime resident who watched rents go up as new people descended. And the producer who applied for Tulsa remote himself.
A group in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will pay remote workers $10,000 to move there. Vox’s Rani Molla explains why the city is banking on a digital workforce — and whether the program leaves longtime Tulsans behind.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.
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