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I'm pretty sure I'm at my last job before I early retire, otherwise I'd be trying hard to get in on this. This is a great get for the area without the significant downside risk of Amazon HQ2 (which we still might get, but I'm starting to think they are going to DC). Getting this and being on the finalists list for HQ2 is going to have a lot of ripple effects of other companies looking here. Hopefully that means more start-ups, too.
If you've been unhappy with the growth in this area, you probably should go ahead and start planning your exit strategy. It isn't slowing down any time soon.
With the morons in the legislature not caring about the negatives of bribing losers to come here, this area will become a complete POS.
Then the rotten bribed losers will move on to destroy the OQL in another city.
NC rural areas and small towns do need jobs. The problem is Apple, Amazon, etc are not going to put high paying tech jobs in those areas. For one thing tech workers are not going to move to a place like Kinston or Duplin county for a job. The same is true for every other state.
NC rural areas and small towns do need jobs. The problem is Apple, Amazon, etc are not going to put high paying tech jobs in those areas. For one thing tech workers are not going to move to a place like Kinston or Duplin county for a job. The same is true for every other state.
There are ways to help improve job opportunities for rural areas in NC, like having high-speed municipal broadband networks. However, Republicans in the NC legislature blocked other cities/counties from making their own high speed regional networks. IIRC, Wilson NC has been the only city in NC to offer its own high speed Internet network. People who work remotely (among others) would benefit greatly from having high speed internet in rural (low cost of living) counties in NC
data centers are nice but they don't have many jobs. They are mostly automated. the main jobs created are during the construction phase. Google and facebook also have NC data centers. Data centers can go anywhere so rural areas are OK for them.
There are ways to help improve job opportunities for rural areas in NC, like having high-speed municipal broadband networks. However, Republicans in the NC legislature blocked other cities/counties from making their own high speed regional networks. IIRC, Wilson NC has been the only city in NC to offer its own high speed Internet network. People who work remotely (among others) would benefit greatly from having high speed internet in rural (low cost of living) counties in NC
And, yet, even with the high-speed broadband (which has been in place for what, a decade now?) Wilson still has not become Raleigh or Durham.
Places need someone willing to invest and people willing to move there and retail/restaurants/conveniences willing to lease or build in the area.
There is no draw to Wilson. It is a depressing, downhill place. Unfortunate, but that's how it is.
I think the issue is that the places that do have more of a draw in NC are still not built up enough to stop businesses from choosing them and instead opting for the outlying areas. We still have room in RTP, we still have a talent pool, real estate is still affordable, so why move to Rocky Mount where it's more rural with not much of a talent pool?
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places like Wilson, Rocky Mount, are close enough to RTP area that people can live there and still commute to RTP area. But they won't live there without high speed internet . Or they could work at home and come in to work part of the time. The draw for those places are low cost housing and small town. that might appeal to some people. There are nice modern areas in those towns .
Places farther away than 1 hour probably are not going to have RTP people there unless they work at home 100% of the time and they need high speed access for that .
And, yet, even with the high-speed broadband (which has been in place for what, a decade now?) Wilson still has not become Raleigh or Durham.
Places need someone willing to invest and people willing to move there and retail/restaurants/conveniences willing to lease or build in the area.
There is no draw to Wilson. It is a depressing, downhill place. Unfortunate, but that's how it is.
I think the issue is that the places that do have more of a draw in NC are still not built up enough to stop businesses from choosing them and instead opting for the outlying areas. We still have room in RTP, we still have a talent pool, real estate is still affordable, so why move to Rocky Mount where it's more rural with not much of a talent pool?
Ehhhhhhh, maybe for those folks who have 500K-600K housing budgets like that person who just posted, or for those coming from high COL areas on the coasts, but real estate in the Triangle is increasingly becoming less affordable for a lot of people, especially working/middle class folks. There's already people from Durham who are moving out to Oxford & Henderson to escape the high rents. It's just a matter of time before more people from Wake County go out to Wilson and Rocky Mount.
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