Why Do Americans Stay When Their Town Has No Future?
its really hard.  I imagine company hiring practices (their growing dependence on recruiting firms) also doesnt help.<p>For instance, the best way to go to a new geography would be to land a job there prior to moving there.  Even in data science, supposedly hot job market, I wanted to get a job in san francisco or seattle, but I was living in philadelphia.  you hear stories about people graduating from cali universities and companies jumping through windows to get to them, but even though I graduated with a masters in CIS from Upenn ... crickets.  I think because most of them recruit through agencies which filter by geography.  I had to reach out aggressively to the recruiters themselves, and bypass a lot of the blockers, which took 2 years.  Had I not done that, my talent didn&#x27;t mean as much as where I was.<p>Now, imagine a small towner trying to do the opposite, get a job after they make a move to say, one of the urban centers.  most people dont have a lot of savings to begin with, and what would last them 6 months where they are would be depleted very quickly in one of the larger cities.  even getting an apartment is harder, you dont have a job? reject.<p>its not impossible, its just really difficult.