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Daydreaming about moving somewhere less populated, maybe to where you can ski in your down time and tap trees for maple syrup? If so, Vermont is beckoning, and might even pay you for your trouble.
On Wednesday, Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, signed into law a bill that will give a number of people who move to Vermont from another state up to $10,000 to help ease the transition.
The money — part of a grant program designed to draw tech workers and revitalize the state’s aging work force — is intended to help with costs like relocation, computer software and hardware, broadband access and membership in a shared professional space.
Those who relocate and take part in the program need to be full-time employees of a business based outside of Vermont and need to be able to work remotely. They also must become a full-time Vermont resident in 2019.
“The first day of the session, we asked ourselves, what sets Vermont apart from the rest of rural states in the country in attracting this growing remote work force,” Senator Michael Sirotkin, Democrat of Chittenden County, which includes the state’s most populous city, Burlington, said in a phone interview on Thursday.
The answer was that Vermont offers a certain quality of life: low crime, beautiful surroundings and affordable housing, said Mr. Sirotkin, who is a main champion of the bill and the chairman of the state’s Senate Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs Committee.
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