Following the same trend, Italy began paying people to move to its more remote villages in order to revitalize them. Other places have set up working visa programs specifically for remote workers, such as Anguilla, Barbados, Georgia, Estonia, and Croatia. In Europe, some countries such as Italy, Romania, Poland, Latvia, and Bulgaria, which had experienced " brain-drain" in preceding years, found young professionals return home as they began working remotely a trend which was further encouraged by some governments in the form of tax breaks for returning citizens. Housing prices have soared as people across Canada buy property in the Maritimes sight unseen through virtual tours, with Fredericton’s U-Haul dealer struggling to keep up with all the people renting moving trucks in Ontario and Quebec and trying to drop them off at its lot." Īccording to the Canadian magazine Maclean's, population-related statistical data in Canada "shows that from Jto July 1, 2020, Toronto and Montreal posted record population losses, while Halifax grew the second-fastest of any major urban area, and Moncton also grew faster than average. West Virginia has offered $12,000 to people who move to the state and work remotely. It is expected that remote workers will bring significant tax revenue and will want to give back to their new communities. Not all areas experiencing booms see it as a problem however, and some have even launched initiatives specifically designed to appeal to remote workers. Many of the areas have tight housing regulations which prevent construction booms, driving up prices for houses already built, as in the Hamptons, which saw a rise in housing prices of up to 25%, and Truckee, which is up 50%. Although the trend was already underway, the sudden rapid migration accelerated it, and led to calls to carefully manage the situation to avoid the places being "loved to death". In the United States, many small western mountain towns have seen significant numbers of very wealthy migrants, leading some observers to call the wealthy zoom towns a "Billionaire Wilderness," taken from the name of a book by Yale University sociologist Justin Farrell. This put strain on towns which were not used to handling so many people, in some cases this lead to problems such as a lack of affordable housing, availability of public transit, congestion, and income inequality which have been traditionally thought of as larger city problems. On the other hand, cities such as San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City, saw rent levels plunge. In the United States, locations such as The Hamptons, New York Cape Cod, Massachusetts Aspen, Colorado Bethel, Maine and Truckee, California - which are usually considered vacation destinations - saw large spikes in people moving there. A November study by the Pew Research center found that as a result of the pandemic, around 5% of Americans had moved in the several months prior to the study. People working remotely found they could attain some "normalcy" by hiking, biking, skiing, snowshoeing, and other outdoor activities while cities were locked down, and they did not need to commute to work. Before the pandemic, only 10% or fewer of workers in the United States worked remotely full-time.
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In March of 2020, the pandemic forced many workers to transfer to remote work, and a September Gallup poll showed that nearly 60% of workers remained working remotely full or part time, and two-thirds of employees wanted to stay that way, giving them more flexibility in where to live. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant migration to previous “getaway communities” and small towns near attractions such as ski resorts in conjunction with the increase in popularity of remote work.
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