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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's obvious the previous generation made the effort to stay in the same regional area.
Today most people don't bat an eye about moving across the country for a job.  Lots of college students expect to move to the locale of their first job.  I only know of a few people who dated with the intent to settle with someone from their home region. Most people date without that criteria, then marry and have kids and it becomes an effort if not an issue to move near one of their families - if this is even remotely possible.[/quote]
It's not that previous generations made an effort to stay in a region. It was just harder before the rise of the internet to find jobs outside of your city or region. Let's say you graduated from the University of Michigan in 1970. Your potential jobs would come from things like job fairs on campus, and alumni network connections, which means your potential first job would be in places like Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago. You wouldn't even know how to apply to a job in a place like Los Angeles or Seattle.

Now, you can apply for a job anywhere in the country, or the world, even. [/quote]

Idk, maybe my parents (who graduated college/professional school in the late 60s) were outliers? Each of them went to colleges several states away from their hometowns (where at least 2 generations of family had lived), and then on to grad schools several states away from both, and ultimately settled (after an overseas tour in the military due to Vietnam) in yet another different part of the country entirely. It's not just a new thing. [/quote]

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