I wouldn’t now - at least, not unless my boyfriend also had a job opportunity in the same area. When I was single I would have.
I dunno Balthisar. I think the stay-put generation has been disappearing longer than you suspect. I’m 55. Started working in 1975. My wife and I moved 11 times in the first 12 years we were married. I’ve always gone where the jobs were. A quick summary of our locations from our old address book looks like:
- Arkansas
- Netherlands
- Scotland
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Washington (Seattle)
- Texas
- Arizona
- Texas
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and so on, we kept coming back to Texas as it is our favorite location. (We live there now).
So to answer the OP, yeah I’ll always move for a better job. I can be packed in an hour. 
There’s only so long I can hold my breath. I’ve been to LA a couple of times for conferences, and that air is not fit for human consumption.
Moved a lot for work/grad school early on but have been in the same place now for 11 years. However, we are relocating in about 14-16 months due to job situation. We wanted to avoid moving while the kids were in school, but this move was difficult to avoid. I’m somewhat ambivalent about it, but I think it is the best decision and the kids are pretty much on board.
I’ve never had a profession, just jobs, so the answer would be ‘no’.
My primary mindset, and one that doesn’t waver much, is that you need to be happy where you are living, because that is your LIFE. You’d better be enjoying it. *I couldn’t imagine moving somewhere I hated just for more money, and I’ve never had much, so that’s saying something. *
I do, however, have a steady job and I would really rather live somewhere else…but that’s not an option due to family. If, for some reason, the reasons not to move changed, I would likely still stick around for a year or two and save up to move. But I would definitely move. I’d rather have a less-optimal job and more-optimal living conditions.
Sure. We’ve only moved 3 times in 39 years, and we have never been out of the midwest, but we have friends who have moved 15 times or more. You have to go where the jobs are.
Yes, and I’m hoping to do so again.
I moved to Vancouver Island because the Winnipeg heavy construction company I worked for as a site engineer landed a contract there. When the project was completed I elected to quit and stay on the island because the lifestyle here is simply out of this world. That was about 30 years ago. I had to take a huge cut in annual income, but I have no complaints. I’m not moving off the island.
I voted Other. Yes, I would move for a job but it would have to be the right job in the right location and worth the upheaval. I haven’t found one yet.
It depends. I guess I’d move to another state in the US (I’m currently in NJ) if the price is right.
I’d go back to Japan in a heartbeat and live out the remainder of my days in contentment…if only one of the pharma companies there would hire me. Yes, I’m speaking to you アステラス製薬株式会社 (Astellas), 第一三共株式会社 (Daiichi-Sankyo), エーザイ株式会社 (Eisai), and 武田薬品工業株式会社 (Takeda).
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Done it and would do it again, but only if necessary.
Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, San Fran, New York, Eastern SC, Western SC.
If you want to be promoted in a large corp. like Westinghouse (RIP), you better be ready to move a lot.
It was well worth it: Field Sales Engineer —>General Manager.
What a wonderful outlook. I kind of want to see more of the world, but am a bit afraid if I moved somewhere different I wouldn’t like it.
I don’t think POTUS get that much time off. 
Maybe VP? 
7 countries in the last 16 years. We have landed somewhere where we love and want to stay for a while, so I’ll probably be passing up some opportunities over the next few years. Unfortunatly there are not any other companies around here that work in my line of business and my visa is tied to the company, so if the boss calls and tells me to get my arse on a plane, I geuss we will be moving again.
May I ask how old your children are?
To be fair, some people move because they can’t find any jobs in their field where they live. It’s not always about more money. Sometimes, it’s about getting a job vs not having one.
I have always wanted to see Japan. Has the recent diaster there changed your opinion about living there?
Other: it would have to be the exact right job, in the exact right place. It’s not likely to happen.
Finished college in 1994. Official unemployment level, 24%, which did not include people trying to get better jobs or those who had obtained a degree in the last two years. I’d been checking the “wanted” ads in the two major newspapers for the last two years, and in all that time there had been a single ad for people in my field (chemistry) - and it was for someone with 10-20 years’ experience.
I moved to the US, where stipends for graduate students in chemistry were good enough to live on and you got an advanced degree to boot (in my case it ended up being an MSc).
Four years later, my father was dying and my employers decided it was “best for all concerned” if I went on working for them but without a job permit. I moved back to Spain.
Three years later, my employers (a different American company) offered me a promotion which would involve moving to the US. Yep, I took it.
Two years later and having been in the US for one, the special project I was working on was ending; I was offered jobs within that same company which would involve relocating from Philadelphia to either Houston or Chicago. I was not allowed to take them because the pustulous eczema who was the company’s immigration lawyer made “sending the State Department a one-side letter notifying them of the change in position” sound like a terrifly difficult, long, costly proposition: got moved back to Spain.
I’ve since lived, by the definitions of Spain’s Foreign Ministry, in Costa Rica, Switzerland, France and the UK. One of the reasons I finally bought a flat in Spain and set up shop as “self employed” with the flat as my official address of business is that it simplifies my taxes and my Social Security - I was getting tired of collecting SSNs from different countries (the European Social Security Network where applicable and travel insurance when not handle my medical needs when I’m abroad).