It seems a little myopic to only look at tech jobs. In fact, I'll be surprised if anyone interested in working in tech struggles to find a job at all. But in te

It seems a little myopic to only look at tech jobs. In fact, I'll be surprised if anyone interested in working in tech struggles to find a job at all. But in terms of the number of people employed, tech is not that big of an employer, and software development specifically only accounts for about 0.8% of the workforce. There are more farmers than that. Back to the topic at hand, there are 7,635,000 unemployed Americans. There are 5,040,000 vacant jobs. The vast majority of those counted as unemployed theoretically could have a job, but for various reasons they don't. A big reason, as we've been discussing, is that they live in cities while the jobs are often in small towns. Your story is sound for a tech professional who can jump around from job to job on a whim, but someone who is already struggling with unemployment has proven that the city cannot offer them what it can offer you. At the same time they don't even realize that other options exist (again, not rejecting the job, but not realizing that they exist at all).