"Farmshoring" refers to companies relocating tech work to rural areas in the USA instead of sending it to Bangalore. Of course this only works if there are actually tech workers that already live nearby or want to move there. WashPost today has a front page article titled Mining Coal Country for Tech Workers. DC area tech companies are moving to Lebanon, VA because, even though it is in very rural southwest Virginia ...

... The area turns out plenty of resumes that the companies want to see. Local officials drafted a study to show that 4,566 computer science degrees were awarded in the past five years by colleges within 100 miles of Lebanon, including Virginia Tech, Radford University and James Madison University. Area community colleges promised to tailor their courses to fit (the companies') needs

I have wondered for a while why more of this wasn't going on. As broadband connectivity becomes the norm in rural areas within the next few years (WiMax is by many accounts finally ready to take off), farmshoring plus increased good-old-fashioned-telecommuting could mean potentially significant changes to the tech economy.

Seems to me like the main limiting factor would be schools in these rural areas. If you are a techie with a family and working in an urban area, you might gladly trade in your hour and a half commute plus unaffordable housing to live in a rural area, but you probably don't want to send your kids to Hee Haw High School. Wonder how state governments will crack this nut while they are still struggling with the fundamentals  ¶ 11:19 AM