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Yep. My daughters husband is one of them. Before the pandemic, they had twice weekly in office meetings. other three days work from home. They lived in LA – and paid a ■■■■ ton of money for a little studio apartment. By little I mean kitchen table, bed, and a couch would fit in it.

After the pandemic, the company bought a virtual meeting software system (not something like zoom or facebook or anything, but a business specific, have to have the same software both ends) and stopped the twice a week in office meetings and started doing them virually.

Couple months later the business informed the employee’s that this would be how it will work from here on out. Moved the execs out of the office, and told the employee’s they could live anyplace they wanted in the country as long as internent service met certain conditions.

Long story short, my daughter and her husbands 6 figure income is now in Utah. No longer paying the california tax (and the tax on gas, the tax on groceries – my daughter said she even thinks there may have been a tax on breathing air in LA).

Now Utah is getting a much smaller amount of their money (in taxes). And they pay a lot less rent and live in a much much larger 2 bedroom apartment in a nicer neighborhood (than they were in LA). Only thing they say they miss is the rooftop patio with grills and pool.

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