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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by Terr_ on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @04:38PM (#40590296)
> You can't just change job locations.

Also when a family has/needs two parents working, Spouse A's next job becomes limited to locations that do not require Spouse B to also quit, and vice-versa.

I have a pet theory that dual-incomes are one cause of movement to urban locations: The family needs to be in a location with enough overlapping opportunities in each person's role/field.

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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by ghaff on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @05:16PM (#40590728)
That's long been a problem with relatively rural universities. If one spouse gets a tenured or tenure-track position, in a lot of cases there aren't great options for the partner.
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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by rshah_45 on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @04:47PM (#40590418)
You have it backwards. In remote areas, it can get lonely and hard to find a partner. Think about people who's only social interaction for the most part is coworkers. Moving to where other people are increases your chances of finding others you click with.
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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by Terr_ on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @04:51PM (#40590456)
That sounds less like "backwards" and more like "separate contributing factor".
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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by throwaway7ahgb on Thursday June 06, 2024 @07:53AM (#40596322)
Urban area crime reduction starting around the 90s led to most movement back. The dual income job requirements just make it stickier and create a feedback system of higher housing prices. (which require more dual incomes...)

As soon as that dual income want kids and can afford it on a signal income in suburbia, they'll take it most of the time.

Just my .02

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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by ghaff on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:22AM (#40597109)
When I graduated grad school in the late 80s, almost no one I knew went to live in an urban core other than a fair number of NYC finance folks--and few of the non-finance jobs were in a city proper. Even the New Yorkers, almost everyone migrated out to suburbs over time. I think I knew maybe one couple who stayed in Manhattan.
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