"What if we could attract some really good people here..."

Where I live, there's an explicit hope that someday, the world will see how great this place is and people will move here and spend money and talk about their A+ new home and mission accomplished. As a recruit myself, I have privileged insight into the shortsightedness of the rescue plan, in concept and execution. We do realize pretty much every place on earth is trying to attract good people, right? How does that work on a global scale?

I am weary of this conversation. And yet, I love this place and I DO want people to come here to share and enrich our happy lives. So I guess there is a recruitment strategy I can get behind; getting people to a happy place.