Courtesy of Mark Radcliffe
- Mark Radcliffe spent over 12 years in NYC before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in September 2020.
- He joined the Tulsa Remote program, which pays participants $10,000 to move there for one year.
- He has since purchased a home and loves his new, slower life and the community he's built.
As the pandemic took hold in the spring of 2020, a shocking statistic ripped through the news: Over 420,000 people had left New York City.
As a New Yorker myself, I thought, "Man, this pandemic is for real." It turned out that many of those nearly half a million had just fled to the homes of family and friends outside the city and eventually came back.
But others didn't — I'm one of them.