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> It wasn’t uncommon for them to move cities three or four times during their life in a time when you couldn’t just rent a uhaul and head down the road. Except
by bsder 5y ago
> It wasn’t uncommon for them to move cities three or four times during their life in a time when you couldn’t just rent a uhaul and head down the road.
Except that you only needed one person to find a better job back then. The problem with now is that you need two people two find better jobs simultaneously.
This was blocking people from moving when better opportunities pop up. I suspect this is more responsible for the Great Resignation than anything else. Once one person of a couple loses their job and has to start a job search, there's no longer anything slowing down the other from taking a better offer even if you have to move.
- majormajor 5y agoThis is a compelling theory for the 30+ crowd, makes a lot of sense. Something else was going on with the unattached 20-something millenials that crowded to existing cities instead of striking out on their own, though. Maybe when Elon gets to Mars, Gen Z+1 will have somewhere new to go. ;)
- c22 5y ago> ...Gen Z+1... I think we should call this generation the ampersands.
- onionisafruit 5y agoIf you go by the census data of my relatives the head of household usually had the job title “laborer” or “farmer”. When he was married his wife was either “maid”, “cook” or “home maker”. Given that, I don’t think they looked too hard for any job before moving on to the next town. It was probably more of getting a letter from a brother or friend saying “Montgomery isn’t as shitty as Durham”.
- yourusername 5y ago> It was probably more of getting a letter from a brother or friend saying “Montgomery isn’t as shitty as Durham”. There's always work in California. And you can eat the grapes right from the vine. Got a handbill here that says so.