Tawny Ann De La Peña, 32, has navigated the last decade of her life at a nonstop, big-city pace. As a former local television news producer and Los Angeles native, slowing down and moving to a small city was never on her horizon, she said — until she and her wife were each offered $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma, through a remote work program called “Tulsa Remote.”
“If I thought about my life three years ago, I would have never ever guessed that I would have ended up in the smack dab middle of the country,” she said. “But it’s been such a pleasant surprise and it’s presented me with so many opportunities.”
