Website Spotlight: MakeMyMove

 Dozens of communities across the U.S. know that remote workers don’t relocate alone when they move to their dream communities. A number of them are marketing not just to the remote worker, but to his or her whole family. And it’s paying off.

“We see great response to incentives that go beyond the free coffee and coworking space to cater to families,” said MakeMyMove Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer Evan Hock. “These communities are looking for people who want to truly be part of their city or town, who want to raise their families there.”

More than 40 million Americans are expected to be fully remote in the next five years. Because they can live anywhere, many of them want to relocate to balance their work and family obligations. MakeMyMove is the nation's first and only marketplace that matches remote workers and their families to communities across the country offering relocation incentives.

Highlights from the currently most popular family-first offers that start with $5,000 in cash are: 

• A $250 contribution to an Early Awards Scholarship, a $100 travel fund to defray the cost of your family visiting you in your new home in Wabash County in north central Indiana. (The scholarship is offered to local parents whose public school children in grades 4-8 to earn up to $1,000 for doing their homework in math, reading and language arts, and completing college prep activities. The additional $250 is just for remote workers in the program.)
• Free 6-week summer day camp for kids ages 4-14 and a $250 travel fund to defray the cost of your family visiting you in Huntington, Ind. (near Fort Wayne)
• A fly-over of their new home courtesy of the local city airport, free community gardening plots, six months free at the local YMCA, a Splash House pass and a City of Marion quilt from the Quilting Hall of Fame from Marion, Ind.
• Grandparents-on-demand for a year, along with a year’s membership at the local YMCA and seats at the table to Greensburg, Ind.’s biggest annual community event 
• Day passes to the city’s children’s museum and annual membership to other area museums near Evansville in the southwestern corner of Indiana.
•  A dozen farm-fresh dozen eggs monthly for a year, state income tax forgiveness until 2026 and access to an array of outside activities in Lincoln County, Kan.
• Free Internet service for a year, free passes to local sporting events, free registration for youth sports  and $200 in ice cream from Henry County, Ind., the main setting of the novel Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr.