America is experiencing a significant population shift. Columbus 2025 aims to be part of it. Not just TX, TN, or FL (Millen: middle-class, real estate)

[jobshopper]

A campaign to speak to the hearts and minds of so many different groups of people nationwide who are on the move in this massive population shift to consider Columbus as their new home or business location with a quick concise introduction package including visuals to showcase something most Americans have never experienced other than their preconceived stereotypes. People are automatically stampeding into Florida, Tennessee, and Texas for what is popularly universally well known about those places already. No way to stem that tide of that stampede. But at least we can attempt to showcase ourselves and make an offer for young entrepreneurs and families to consider our surprising lifestyles and community that most of them may not be aware of. Why wait for a plane ticket to erase stereotypes and experience something different? Some will say that this generation does everything digitally. So a digital campaign it is.

Visual introduction to Columbus Georgia for newbies, or potential newbies. Short and sweet just like the TikTok generation prefers. Maybe a trickle of new guests will lead to something bigger. Like jobs!
The mass population shift is in full swing. Something not seen since the days of Post World War II where couples reuniting after the war built suburbs and caused a Baby Boom akin to the days of the Oklahoma land rush of Conestoga Wagons. This is the new American Land Shift. No use standing around watching it bypass us. Introduce ourselves. Build futures. Bring jobs. Not just Millennials. EVERYBODY!


VIEW THE QUICK VISUAL CAMPAIGN IN THE LINK:
https://www.columbus2025.com/move-to...hy-videography

[Atlanta-Kid]

Originally Posted by jobshopper

A campaign to speak to the hearts and minds of so many different groups of people nationwide who are on the move in this massive population shift to consider Columbus as their new home or business location with a quick concise introduction package including visuals to showcase something most Americans have never experienced other than their preconceived stereotypes. People are automatically stampeding into Florida, Tennessee, and Texas for what is popularly universally well known about those places already. No way to stem that tide of that stampede. But at least we can attempt to showcase ourselves and make an offer for young entrepreneurs and families to consider our surprising lifestyles and community that most of them may not be aware of. Why wait for a plane ticket to erase stereotypes and experience something different? Some will say that this generation does everything digitally. So a digital campaign it is.

Visual introduction to Columbus Georgia for newbies, or potential newbies. Short and sweet just like the TikTok generation prefers. Maybe a trickle of new guests will lead to something bigger. Like jobs!
The mass population shift is in full swing. Something not seen since the days of Post World War II where couples reuniting after the war built suburbs and caused a Baby Boom akin to the days of the Oklahoma land rush of Conestoga Wagons. This is the new American Land Shift. No use standing around watching it bypass us. Introduce ourselves. Build futures. Bring jobs. Not just Millennials. EVERYBODY!


VIEW THE QUICK VISUAL CAMPAIGN IN THE LINK:
https://www.columbus2025.com/move-to...hy-videography

This is great! I just connected- I am a drone pilot and videographer. I talk about Columbus a lot on social media and would love to get more involved!

[Hunter Wilson]

ROFL......uhh yeah. Read on.

Georgia city wants to pay you more than $7,000 to move there

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/thi...CBSUBYIOPURY4/

[Jamesjb131]

Originally Posted by Hunter Wilson

ROFL......uhh yeah. Read on.

Georgia city wants to pay you more than $7,000 to move there

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/thi...CBSUBYIOPURY4/

Wow! I thought this was fake!

[Thulsa]

There are eligibility requirements.
As near as I can tell from their website you have to create an account to get the details.
But the general requirements says you need to already have a job that you bring with you (such as remote workers), and that there is also a requirement that the job you bring meets some income level set by the new community's program.
You have to provide proof of income, American ID, and so on.
So so it appears that it's a nope for retirees, burger flippers, new graduates, etc.

[Hunter Wilson]

They already have too many of those folks and with a low education threshold citywide and the migrant workers from across the river taking what few decent jobs left with nepotism it will never change.
The mayor and council have tried every trick in the book and always ends up a failure or financial loss for taxpayers.
Educated folks stay far away from this area as it is frustrating to even live around this mentality.

[Das_Interwebz]

My slat on it is Powers-that-be have this all part of the Plan.

First mid-20th century Powers-that-be saw fit that especially after WW2 that Americans need to SPREAD OUT MORE. This over the COLD WAR in nuclear fears and GI loans pushed SUBURBAN AREAS over in-city unless it was still a single-home with some attributes of suburban areas.

Also by the Gov making its Redlining maps where Gi loans would not go and banks should not lend as high risk ended being the neighborhoods white-flight occurred and for decades minority GI's did not get them loans for their neighborhoods or those areas in-city and suburbs that had Covenants on deeds that would read white-only could live there etc.

The north had high Unionization that provided and grew a new middle-class we call the good-ole-days that boomed the industrial cities where no city PAID TO RELOCATE, but these Corporations saw that a new way to do some good-ole Union-busting was to LURE SOUTHERN AFRICAN-AMERICANS with promises of plentiful jobs and no Jim-Crowe Laws.

These companies could pay much lower-wages to them and Unions did not want them in. So millions in the Great Migration move to northern industrial cities for jobs.

They were forced into segregate areas of the city that began to bust-at-the-seams and racial turmoil occurred, Union-riots and in came the ethnic Irish and Italian gangs that became the Mafia and of course some cities had plenty of strife some see as only new today.

Then came the mass ABANDONMENT of Manufacturers and other Corporations for cheaper land where all them nice GI loans were being promoted for new Cul de sac living. They abandoned MILLS Across the Rust-belt and it hit small cities to mid-size and of course our large cities draining TAX BASE and White-Flight adding with Block-busting tactics of Realtors inducing fear of a minority family moved in a block away and sell early or take a huge cut in property values. Still, they would lose 10% - 20% and move to newer neighborhoods of the cities last growth and suburbs.

Next came the Lure of cheap-as-heck Asian labor where less than a $1 an hours was plentiful and low taxation and we could build up first Japan, than Taiwan and Hong Kong and South Korea and of course China itself came in huge.

This further drained cities and even hurt suburbs over decades. We got cheap products back only to hit us of the damage were were doing with all the above to our especially industrial north and even industrial parts of the south west etc.

Then came Corporations seeking the LURE of the Southern states especially with no income tax and begging with incentives, free taxes, paying to relocate etc. Some of this still ongoing as this thread suggests.

Then we trash our cities as having declines because of ideology and just all about corruption and also not realizing ALL THE GENERATIONS that GREW EQUITY in their homes and higher-paying jobs Union to professional to afford it.

So for a few decades land was cheaper in cities in the Sunbelt and their suburbs having plenty cheaper than the LONG EARNiNG Equity cities with decades of lost industry and MILLS JUST ABANDONED TO ROT WE ALLOWED yet them home owners now had taxes rising, but still mostly paid-off mortgages and equity that built.

They saw nearing or entering retirement they could CASH IN. Sell HUGE up north and buy more land and build a larger newer home for much cheaper and money to bank. WHO WOULD NOT TAKE THE BAIT?

Enter Companies continued to be lured and SOME HUGE TAX BREAKS AND FREE MONEY PAID TO RELOCATE BASICALLY. Again who would not take the bait if their company could get paid to move and LOWER WAGE-SCALE in RIGHT-TO-WORK States that really was all about PREVENTING UNIONIZATION and IT WORKED.

Add again Powers-that-be also needed to promote it with spreading out Americans into a more equally (really unequally) populated nation if civiil war or nuclear exchange occurred etc.

NO other nation has cities and provinces (states) STEAL from each other over a national desire for all cities to succeed or at least not promote a region lose so another and gain. They also REVERE their major cities and constantly remake, re-imaging and preserve them even rebuild after war some as it was vs in the US we CHOSE TO MAKE DESERTED HOLES in our cities of diss-investement,white flight and GROWING OUR UNDER-CLASS.

I respond with this long not great grammar post as I am not double-checking post. WITH OPINION as a boomer that lived my life up north. Small to Large cities and suburbs over the years.

What we did to ourselves and still doing is all our own faults. At least we are big enough, powerful enough and rich enough a nation to still have cities surviving with so much STRESSED ASPECTS WE CREATED generation after generation and it continues.

Paying people to relocate apparently is the new American way to success and the-heck-with the damage we do still. Than these areas find companies pay little tax so WE DO anyway and Real Estate taxes to insurance skyrocket to EAT AWAY AT GAINS. Housing markets that are more about CORPORATE investing buying up new homes and building them with NICE FOREVER HOA's to keep everyone on the hook and still high taxes come.

So get in cheap FIRST get your maybe decade in before new-infrastructure needs call and things age and your slab cracks and you look for a NEW CHEAPER AREA again.

If this post is too making no sense, just move one and ignore it and if to over the top and rambling it can be deleted and life across the land will still go on and as manufacturing returns, a huge share just might go the Mexico anyway. Look what Texas gave Elon Musk like 1-billion $ to move new expansions and still he is building in Mexico for the cheaper.

[lookingtoreloc78]

Explanation:

https://www.wrbl.com/news/columbus-2...-job-with-you/

[Hunter Wilson]

Rofl... let us see how many take the 'bait" according to article.
Now how many will watch baseball?...these people are off the grid

[KSM0984]

Originally Posted by Thulsa

There are eligibility requirements.
As near as I can tell from their website you have to create an account to get the details.
But the general requirements says you need to already have a job that you bring with you (such as remote workers), and that there is also a requirement that the job you bring meets some income level set by the new community's program.
You have to provide proof of income, American ID, and so on.
So so it appears that it's a nope for retirees, burger flippers, new graduates, etc.

Exactly. It is privately funded. Has nothing to do with the city promoting this. 99.9% who read this read it completely wrong. Other cities have done this. Sounds like a good business idea to attract high-income, educated tech workers. Other cities have capitalized on this like Tulsa, Topeka and several areas of Indiana.