Alex Taub, 33, is cofounder and CEO of Upstream, a new professional social networking app and platform.
Regardless of the status of a COVID-19 vaccine, Taub thinks the remote work trend will continue to grow over the next few years and that less-populated cities may become new hubs for tech and business.I grew up in NYC on the Upper West Side; my parents still live there. Other than nine months spent overseas between high school and college, I've lived my entire life in Manhattan — most recently with my wife, two daughters, and our dog in the 60s on West End Avenue.
We considered how officials weren't taking it seriously as well as the difficulty of having our-four-year-old daughter doing pre-K on Zoom, a baby, and two full-time working parents in an NYC two-bedroom. It was hard to get anything done. We started to think about the winter and the cold weather and future lockdowns — and what we could do about it.
In early November, Taub posted a picture of his daughter Keira enjoying a pony ride at an equestrian farm in North Miami, writing that, "After 84 and sunny today + winter about to bear down on NYC, I will publicly offer that anyone interested in coming to Miami can DM me for all the info I put together."We packed up our stuff and officially moved in July, locking down a one-year lease in North Miami.
It's still early and I'm generally a positive guy, but as we start to hear about the weather getting colder in NYC and it being 80+ and sunny here, it feels like we made the right decision for our needs. It's hard to have any semblance of a work-life balance when in the earliest stage of building a company.
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