(NewsNation) — More and more Americans are trading the big city and bright lights for open skies and quiet nights in search of a better quality of life.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many small towns started to offer financial incentives to push remote workers to relocate. Now, these programs have exploded in popularity among both remote and on-site workers and their families.

The relocation programs have proven to be mutually beneficial as transplants can experience life in a new way while boosting local economies and ingraining themselves into the fabric of their communities.

Programs across the country

There are over a dozen states with programs designed to incentivize relocation to small towns and less populated areas.

Tulsa Remote was created before the pandemic in 2018 a

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