Do you need a warm butterscotch candy or a spiel about back-in-the-day? If so, this small town in Indiana is the place to be as it is offering on-demand grandparents.
The city of Greensburg, Indiana, is offering an incentive to those who pack up and move in. Along with $5,000 in cash, a YMCA membership, and gift cards to a local farmers market, new residents will also get to experience a service they are calling "Grandparents on Demand."
Located 50 miles southeast of Indianapolis, the city of Greensburg is a small community with a population of about 12,000.
But, with the hopes of growing, the town is offering its incentives to help motivate people to move in, and the grandparents on standby is just an added bonus.
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The director of Decatur County Community Foundation, Tami Wenning, shared with NPR that she and her husband Dan are the grandparents up-for-grabs in town.
"When we have a grandparents day thing, it's packed," Wenning told NPR. "I would be more than happy to go to school and be there for a child, so they don't have to go without a grandma."
Both Wenning and her husband have held multiple positions in town and hosted foreign exchange students. Being able to step in and babysit children is a benefit that they feel will help out new residents transition into the city.
To be eligible for the incentives, you would have to move to Greensburg within the next 6-12 months, have a remote job based outside the town, be at least 18 years old, and be eligible to work in the U.S.
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