http://brokelyn.com Food, restaurants, shopping and cheap fun on a budget in Brooklyn NYC Fri, 24 May 2013 22:09:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://brokelyn.com/it-pays-to-move-but-how-much-is-it-worth-to-relocate-to-alaska/ http://brokelyn.com/it-pays-to-move-but-how-much-is-it-worth-to-relocate-to-alaska/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:30:49 +0000 Rachel DeLetto http://brokelyn.com/?p=40154 Read More]]>
It’s all fun and games up there until you run into this guy. Photo by James Hager This summer, we reported that Kansas and Niagara Falls want young educated talent to move there so badly that they are offering to pay down your student loans. Brokelyn alum Jennifer Holder, reporting for Wise Bread, found a few additional, unconventional areas around the country that are offering similar incentives to attract fresh young minds. Before you balk, keep in mind that Brooklyn was one of those “unconventional places” not so long ago. None of the places are what would be seen as urban centers, except maybe Detroit, but there are advantages to moving somewhere like, say, Milnor, North Dakota, like cheap housing compared to Brooklyn. Or hell, move to Chattanooga and you not only get $10,000 for a mortgage, but you’ll be close to Bonnarroo every year, if you’re into that sorta thing. Or you could just go for broke and… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/it-pays-to-move-but-how-much-is-it-worth-to-relocate-to-alaska/feed/ 5 http://brokelyn.com/how-bad-is-your-student-debt-is-it-move-to-kansas-bad/ http://brokelyn.com/how-bad-is-your-student-debt-is-it-move-to-kansas-bad/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:33:13 +0000 Tim Donnelly http://brokelyn.com/?p=37147 Read More]]>
Hey guys, which way to the gourmet mayo shop? “Brain drain” is not a problem we face here at all, as Brooklyn is often the place where all the country’s young fertile minds wash up. Not so much for smaller cities such as Niagara Falls and states like Kansas, both which are facing a crippling lack of talent and young professionals. So to fix this, those places have taken to the municipal equivalent of paying for sex: both places are offering to pay down your student loans if you move and work there. Niagara will pay you $3,500 per year for the next two years; Kansas is offering to either waive income tax for up to five years or pay your student loans up to $15,000 if you agree to move to one of the “Rural Opportunity Zones” spread throughout the state, though it looks like none of them is in… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/how-bad-is-your-student-debt-is-it-move-to-kansas-bad/feed/ 8