[samstave]

WTH marketing much?

Read the fn offer:

They will give you $10,000 cash, plus another $10,000 toward a renovation to a house you buy, or to a down-payment on a house you are required to buy, with a value of >$150K that you are required to live in for 5 years.

And you have to apply, and be approved, and undergo a casual interview by the city council.

And you have to be ready to move in within 6 months of approval.

And you have to be fully remote, have a local job, or be moving to cumberland in acceptance of a job...

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They GIVE YOU NO FN REASON WHY you would want to move there.

The municipal website is a "Parks & Rec Fisher Price" as it comes, where the first link on "Populat links" is "Pay utilities"

There are no posted bid offereings (meaning no active project cumberland is seeking RFPs on)

And community events is barren...

So, why is this on HN?

It doesnt even give a nice GPT synpsis of what the heck cumberland is even about - Here, I GPTd it for them:

https://i.imgur.com/mueJp1W.png

https://i.imgur.com/scpNTid.png

Is my math wrong or something? Did anyone actually look at the image?

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Back when Detroit was doing super bad, and lots for huge Victorian and other nice architecture homes were going for ~$5,000 - there was a lot of chatter of a bunch of millenial-ish techies buy up a bunch of plots and start a tech-commune sort of adventure out there. (turned out the person organizing that effort was pulling a huge grift)

Maybe try to do a YC startup fund where "Hey heres free housing internet and utilities for your startup if you can prove "XYZ" -- like what about a visa program if some Hackers can come in and do a startup there and raise the economy where the city is invested in the startups? But have the program vetted by some panel of experts the city recruits

[zoklet-enjoyer]

This could be attractive to people like my brother and his girlfriend. His job is remote and she's going to school for an art degree, mostly into ceramics and wood turning. They love the outdoors and this would be a good spot for them.

[memcg]

Frostburg State University, Deep Creek Lake and Wisp Resort are close. Summer temperature was 10 degrees F cooler than my house near DC the last time I spent a week at Deep Creek.

[samstave]

Yeah, I got down boted -- but I was making the point that CUmberland didnt even do a fn GPT splat at an attempt to market this.

Heck - any retire-age level techie person with a passsive income/ability to do things remote etc could take this up

But the 20K to live there for five years, and youre required to put 10K of that toward a house that must be >150K

Here are all the listing on Zillow for houses 150K to 200K in/around cumberland md

https://i.imgur.com/L6dx2ji.jpeg

[deadlydose]

> didnt even do a fn GPT splat

Do us a favor and run your comments through it next time. And drop the whole crybaby "bots" crap.

[forvelin]

you got downvotes because your replies lack manners.

[samstave]

I'm not responsible for whatever tone you put on my post in your internal monologue's voice.

Being starkly the only one who points out how weird it is that there was no reason for why would even want to consider this offer, and the unappealing rules for which this is controlled -- its a weird endeavor for this town, and weird post for HN.

Is stating such lacking of manners? Or are emotional triggers > discussion of the content posted?

@Debo - I was talking about the content of the freaking Cumberland website and their offer.

Whatever - defend this absolutely atrocious offer, my comment being downvoted doesnt make the offer any better, nor it presentation.

What a weird thread

[debo_]

Neither the presentation nor the content was good, so you are being downvoted.