Pack your bags: the company will pay $ 10 000 to those who are ready to leave one of the US regions

Silicon Valley has long been the birthplace of technology companies and startups. Because of this, rents in the Gulf region have grown over the years to almost unrealistic sizes. This led to a housing crisis. One of the companies wants to solve this problem by offering money to those who are ready to leave the Valley.

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MainStreet, a San Jose company founded by three former Google employees, is on a mission that even its founders call daring. MainStreet's goal is to create jobs in suburban and rural communities. And not a couple or three, but a million.

In a blog post, MainStreet CEO Doug Ludlow writes, “We believe this campaign will draw attention to our company's bold mission and vision. It will help people realize that they don't have to live in the Bay Area (or another expensive urban area) to have an amazing career.”

Of course, money is given for certain obligations - candidates who accept a proposal to move from MainStreet must remain in their positions for a year before they actually receive 10 000 dollars. The offer is valid only until the end of this month. This means that interested and qualified candidates have about two weeks to take advantage of this unique opportunity.

The benefits will be twofold: this will help overcome the housing crisis in the Gulf area, as well as create jobs in remote and isolated areas outside the main urban epicenters.

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According to Ludlow, the local and municipal economies outside the Gulf will benefit from this, as skilled and well-paid workers will be able to work there as they do in Silicon Valley.

The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area has long been a problem in the region, as housing availability has plummeted, and highly qualified technology experts have supplanted the low-income workforce and middle class in the area.

Meanwhile, technology companies, which are mainly responsible for the housing crisis, are trying to contribute to solving this problem. Let's say Apple recently promised 2,5 billion dollars to solve this problem. Google is ready to allocate 1 billion dollars to use the land owned by the company for affordable housing, as well as to interest developers for this.

Facebook also raised 500 of millions of dollars through CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help its newly-created Partnership for the Future of the Bay Investment Fund deal with the ongoing housing crisis in the region.

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MainStreet, the smallest player in Silicon Valley, plans to partner with other corporations. He will recruit and train people interested in leaving the Gulf area and working remotely, and MainStreet employees will be trained through video conferencing. The companies that accepted the offer will work in satellite communication departments known as the MainStreet community.

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Ludlow writes that the current situation in small towns, ghost towns, and cities with a housing crisis is not sustainable. It "has led to a host of social problems, including deep political polarization, systemic economic inequality, and the insane cost of living in urban areas like San Francisco and New York."

MainStreet declares that it is ready to soften the conditions of departure from the gulf area by providing an additional 5000 scholarship for three months, as well as medical insurance for employees and their families in case of loss of work.

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