IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies?

GMGruman writes "Offshoring, cloud computing, automation, 'do more with less' — all of these have been chipping away at US IT workers' ability to have a job. But some companies now dangle a new possibility: Move to rural areas for lower-paying 'onshoring' jobs that can compete with lower overseas salaries. InfoWorld's Bob Violino talked to IT workers who've made the move and discovered that although it's no 'Green Acres meets Big Bang Theory' experience, a move from the big city to the hinterlands appeals mainly to just some IT worker segments, even as it provides new opportunities for others."

Comments

Re: Small Towns

[TaoPhoenix]

There must be a few variants of small town.

The ones I have been in are more of the "Mrs. Garplethwaite's Tulip Died four years ago today when someone dumped bleach on it. In a Post-Tulip World, we must never again use anything that contains an element from the leftmost column of the periodic table without its loving mate Chlorine wed in holy matrimony".

(For those of you who missed the joke, sometimes education in raw factoids is there but the conclusions drawn then get dialed to 11. That was my attempt to combine "Never Forget", "Nasty Chemicals", and Hetero bias in one pronouncement. Salts are typically (Na/K)Cl and are tasty enough, but sky help you with "Nasty chemicals" of Sodium Hydroxide and Hydrochloric Acid. But most of all, all this gets wrapped up in one Town Story that is simply mashed to a pulp.)

Remember the Tulip!

Re:I'd rather make peanuts telecommuting

[Lotana]

You probably did too.

Unfortunately no.

At least I am at home here.