Maybe it's because overall level of focus on career has diminished? People aren't achievers now as much as they used to be, most live relaxed lifestyles. No one

Maybe it's because overall level of focus on career has diminished? People aren't achievers now as much as they used to be, most live relaxed lifestyles. No one is gonna rip their ass for a small salary increase, and a big increase is unlikely because advances in HR made market rather flat, everyone has a more or less deterministic value. It's a good thing. Work is not everything. I actually never knew a person who moved because of work - yes sometimes they looked for work in a new place because they wanted to move to that particular place - because of their partner, climate, politics/security, just to fulfil their dream - but the whole thing of "being offered a good job 2000 miles away so have move there" is entirely foreign to me. Never knew a single person who did that. Just because why?