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Top 50 US Cities to Remote Work

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Top 50 US Cities to Remote Work

Remote workers prefer small, affordable, and outdoorsy cities

Dennis Wisco
Jul 27, 2022
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Top 50 US Cities to Remote Work

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The Wall Street Journal and Realtor.com partnered together to rank the top 300 markets that are small, affordable and outdoorsy. Remote work has caused a migration out of large metropolitan cities to areas like Boulder, Colorado. In addition to house prices, other factors that made these cities ideal for remote workers are real estate taxes, unemployment, wages, commute time, and small business loans. The top 20 cities have an average population size of 400,000.

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Here are the top 20 markets in the United States:

  1. Elkhart-Goshen, Indiana

  2. Burlington, North Carolina

  3. Johnson City, Tennessee

  4. Fort Wayne, Indiana

  5. Billings, Montana

  6. Raleigh, North Carolina

  7. Rapid City, South Dakota

  8. North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida

  9. Topeka, Kansas

  10. Visalia-Porterville, California

  11. Fort Collins, Colorado

  12. Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina

  13. Santa Cruz-Watsonville, California

  14. Boulder, Colorado

  15. Huntsville, Alabama

  16. Vallejo-Fairfield, California

  17. Eureka-Arcata-Fortuna, California

  18. Jefferson City, Missouri

  19. Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, Kentucky

  20. Colorado Springs, Colorado

Rapid City, South Dakota ranked 7th on the list is the second most populated city in South Dakota with a population of 75K.


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Employers begin to taper hiring new employees

Entering Q3 of 2022, some of the largest publicly-traded companies are explicitly saying that they will be either slowing the pace of hiring or will be halting any new hires in the immediate future. Microsoft MSFT 0.00 , Google GOOG 0.00 , Meta META 0.00, and Netflix NFLX 0.00 are among a long list of companies who have now publicly stated that they are halting the hiring frenzy and will be focusing their efforts and resources on the people they have.

A question that hasn’t come up in this seasons’ earnings calls is will employers require employees to come back and physically work out of the company office? Perhaps, this topic is beating a dead horse and the debate is settled. If it is, then remote work and hybrid schedules are the new norm.

Here are the next 30 cities on the WSJ/Realtor.com Emerging Markets Index for Summer 2022:

  1. Portland-South Portland, Maine

  2. Yuma, Arizona

  3. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, California

  4. Lafayette-West Lafayette, Indiana

  5. Manchester-Nashua, New Hampshire

  6. Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, California

  7. Waco, Texas

  8. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California

  9. Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia

  10. LaCrosse-Onalaska, Wisconsin-Minnesota

  11. Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, Florida

  12. Wilmington, North Carolina

  13. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida

  14. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California

  15. Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, Florida

  16. Knoxville, Tennessee

  17. Columbia, Missouri

  18. Fresno, California

  19. Columbia, South Carolina

  20. Hickory-Lenoir-Morgaton, North Carolina

  21. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, North Carolina-South Carolina

  22. Coeur D’Alene, Idaho

  23. Decatur, Alabama

  24. Gainesville, Georgia

  25. Modesto, California

  26. Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, Tennessee

  27. Columbus, Ohio

  28. Salinas, California

  29. Yuba City, California

  30. Grand Junction, Colorado

Source: View the full list of 300 markets here (WSJ subscription required).

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