This article is mostly concerned about 'geoarbitrage' - living in low-cost areas while earning the wages prevailing in the high-cost areas where their companies are located (as though companies would never produce goods in low wage areas and transport them to sell in high-wage areas). And pulling up stakes and living on the road isn't for everyone, and much less so for students and children. But I wonder whether it won't be a lot more common in the future. And it won't always be voiluntary; consider the case of people in western Canada being forced to flee massive forest fires or those in sourthern Germany displaced by flooding, to name only a few. We know now that we can continue to support people who can't come into the school or office, but how will we manage this going forward? It would be short-sighted to pretend these issues will disappear with the end of Covid. Probably, they're just getting started.
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