Maryland city offers remote workers $20,000 to relocate to once-booming manufacturing hub

At the edge of Appalachia in the Allegheny Mountains, the regulars at Caporale's Bakery almost always leave with their hands full — just like they've done for the last 118 years in the city of Cumberland, Maryland. While Dave Caporale is the fourth generation to man the counter, his dad Gus still helps out in the back.

But over time, the city around their bakery has changed. Once Maryland's second largest community, Cumberland was known as "The Queen City." Its crown lost its luster, though, as the area's three biggest factories all closed within five years.

"It was like a real busy town, and then they started downsizing. One leave and the other would leave and we really got hit by it big time," Gus Caporale said.