{"id":14890,"date":"2024-12-13T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=14890"},"modified":"2024-12-13T20:50:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:50:47","slug":"you-cant-do-that-in-new-york-durham-is-among-nations-top-cities-for-remote-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2024\/12\/13\/you-cant-do-that-in-new-york-durham-is-among-nations-top-cities-for-remote-work\/","title":{"rendered":"‘You can’t do that in New York’: Durham among nation’s top cities for remote work"},"content":{"rendered":"
Vanessa Hagerbaumer\u2019s experience working from home in the Triangle is not only about what she does; it\u2019s about what she <\/span>sees.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n During a recent phone interview, a deer cut across the window of her Chapel Hill house, causing her to pause mid-sentence. To Hagerbaumer, 46, who currently rents from a friend in Chapel Hill while she seeks a lease in Durham, the brush with nature is a reminder of why she moved from New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLiterally, a deer walked by the window that’s three feet in front of my face, and it has these huge horns, or whatever they called \u2013 \u2018antlers\u2019 \u2013\u00a0 and it scared the bejesus out of me,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou can’t do that in New York.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Triangle region is one of the nation\u2019s most popular metro areas for remote working. In 2023, more than 60,000 workers from the Durham-Chapel Hill region \u2014\u00a0nearly a fifth of the region\u2019s overall workforce \u2014 worked from home most days each week, per the Census Bureau\u2019s <\/span>Journey-To-Work Report<\/span><\/a>. According to analysis done by <\/span>Coworking Mag<\/span><\/a>, Durham ranked ninth among major U.S. cities for the largest share of remote workers in 2023, tying with Tampa. Raleigh ranked second.<\/span><\/p>\n Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh have consistently ranked above national averages for remote working over the past decade, according to the magazine\u2019s analysis. While remote work peaked across the United States during the pandemic, it has remained higher than pre-pandemic levels in the years since.<\/span><\/p>\n For some members of this workforce, Durham\u2019s main draw was the presence of family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n