'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West
Social mobility without money looks like the dustbowl, or Californian migrant farm workers.<p>Social mobility with money looks like second homes becoming first, with huge investments and then questions around socialised cost of roads, infrastructure in general.<p>If you do the local taxes right, it evens out, but the price of land and housing rises for the non-mobile locals and it makes for some awesome &quot;you&#x27;re not from around here&quot; issues.<p>The write-ups of westerners working from Bali goes into a bit of this. Yes, it adds to the local economy. No, not always in constructive ways. Feeding young egos desire for european beer and fixing their skateboard falls costs time feeding local kids in schools and providing primary health care in a stretched local economy which is 10x lower down the scale.