While I can't comment on your personal experience, what you're implying here is really offensive: the idea that only clock-punchers aren't willing to relocate f

While I can't comment on your personal experience, what you're implying here is really offensive: the idea that only clock-punchers aren't willing to relocate for a job. Most of the best people in any field care about more than just their work and have a whole life outside their job. Relocating means impact on many things, like leaving your community, uprooting your family, impact on spouse's career, pulling kids out of school, moving away from family, etc. My guess is that most of the people who are willing to easily drop everything and relocate for a job don't have much to drop in the first place, because they're single twenty-somethings.