Remote Workers Can Get a Cushy Apartment, Free Office Space, and $10K If They Move To Tulsa (nextgov.com)

Tulsa, Oklahoma is offering full-time remote workers in the U.S. free office space, a subsidized furnished apartment, and $10,000 cash if you move there and stay for at least one year. The city wants to attract so-called "digital nomads," who would, presumably, start paying taxes, launch businesses, and otherwise contribute to the economy of wherever they're drawn to. Nextgov reports: Tulsa Remote is one of several revitalization projects in the region funded by the George Kaiser Family Foundation. The Tulsa-based philanthropic organization was started by George B. Kaiser, an oil and banking billionaire who has signed on to Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates' "Giving Pledge," whose wealthy signees promise to give away at least half their fortunes to charity.

The organization has budgeted for 20 new remote workers in the program's first year, says Ken Levit, GKFF's executive director. Applicants must be at least 18, eligible to work in the U.S., already working full-time for an employer based outside the boundaries of Tulsa County, and prepared to move to Tulsa within six months. Applications opened Tuesday at the website TulsaRemote.com; the city hopes to settle the first new residents within the next three months, Levit said.

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Oklahoma is a shithole state

[bzipitidoo]

Yes, I'll add to the pile. Why doesn't Texas slide into the Gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks.

Oklahoma is an extremely conservative state, possibly the reddest in the nation, full of Bible thumpers, prosperity gospel heretics, mindless straight ticket Republican voters, gun lovers, bigots of every description, and anti-science and anti-education morons. Whenever I have to go though, I spend as little time as possible there.

As for Tulsa, among other things, that's the home of Oral Roberts University.