"...that is the only employer of actuaries in town, so they are completely marooned..." In any career there were always those who will limit themselves to the

"...that is the only employer of actuaries in town, so they are completely marooned..." In any career there were always those who will limit themselves to the options "in town" and those who will go anywhere, anyhow to move ahead or find a better quality of life. Not saying that one is right and the other wrong, and this may now finally change with the remote work wave, but, there it is.