Remote California workers paid $10K to relocate to Oklahoma praise their new home state

An Oklahoma relocation programme paid Californians $10,000 to move to nan state, and immoderate opportunity they person ne'er looked back, according to a Los Angeles Times study past month.

The insubstantial said pinch former California residents Cynthia Rollins and Zach Meincke astir their determination to time off nan authorities done nan Tulsa Remote program.

Both said they were initially uncertain but person since grown to emotion their caller home.

“When I was [in California], I was truthful consumed pinch nan process of day-to-day surviving — nan traffic, getting places, scheduling things,” Rollins said. “Here there’s truthful overmuch much abstraction to deliberation creatively astir your life and to benignant of group it up nan measurement you want.”

Meincke, who moved himself and his woman to Tulsa 3 years ago, told the Los Angeles Times he was motivated not only by affordability but by nan chance to raise a family.

“There was nary measurement we were going to move into a location successful Los Angeles unless we had roommates, and that’s not an perfect situation,” Meincke said. “We were 37 erstwhile we near Los Angeles, and it felt for illustration we were astatine a constituent that if we wanted to person each those different things successful life — children, a location — we request to make that shift.

“When we were first considering Tulsa, I was Googling nan metropolis trying to fig retired if it was a awesome spot to live, and location was this blurb that came up correct astatine nan apical that said Tulsa is simply a cool spot to live. If you’re young, you mightiness unrecorded present for a while, and you mightiness get a small bored. But if you’re a parent, this is nan cleanable spot to raise your kid. And that couldn’t person been a much existent answer.”

Launched successful 2019, nan Tulsa Remote programme offers distant workers a $10,000 assistance to move to nan metropolis for astatine slightest 1 year.

The Los Angeles Times reported much than 7,800 Californians person applied to nan program, pinch 539 relocating to Tulsa.

Applicants must beryllium astatine slightest 18 years of age, activity full-time remotely extracurricular Oklahoma, beryllium capable to move wrong 12 months and person lived extracurricular nan authorities for astatine slightest a twelvemonth earlier applying.

Tulsa Remote’s website says 76% of participants who completed their first twelvemonth person stayed successful nan city.

In a connection to Fox News Digital, a Tulsa Remote spokesperson said nan programme has welcomed much than 3,700 distant workers to nan city.

“While we’re proud of nan program’s expertise to pull applicants from each authorities crossed nan country, what stands retired astir are nan communal themes successful their applications: group want a existent consciousness of community, affordable housing, entree to awesome restaurants and civilization and beautiful parks for their kids. We’re grateful to person helped truthful galore build nan lives they envisioned and to person created a programme that has delivered truthful overmuch for Tulsans,” nan spokesperson said.

Fox News Digital besides reached retired to nan metropolis of Tulsa for comment.

California has many times classed among the top states for outbound migration, according to US Census Bureau information and moving institution surveys, pinch galore citing precocious surviving costs and wide policies.