Would you move for a job?

As a single guy I moved to Sweden for my job so I guess yes, I would.

I’m also still here, over eleven years later.

Yes. Although it would depend on where and how badly I wanted the job. I’m thinking now of looking for a job somewhere else - I just have to decide where I want it to be.

My house is paid for, which makes it so much easier - I won’t have to worry about a rent and a mortgage, or two mortgages.

Not at all. It is only a matter of time before things get back to normal. I have many friends and colleagues there, and the atmosphere is perfect for my personality. I’m hopeful to have an opportunity for an extended visit in the next year or so as it is difficult to get an interview with the companies I’m interested from here.

Sure-

My son is 16 and my daughter 13. They were both heavily involved in this decision and we presented multiple options for how to handle the move during school (especially for my son who is already in high school). If you are interested you can PM me and I can let you know what we discussed. My son is totally nonplussed by the move; my daughter is more wary but generally excited.

I’ve already done it twice, as its the nature of my field that you more or less have to move around for a few years after graduate school. Of course, now we have the so-called two body problem, with both me and my SO being in the same field and the difficulties that accompany trying to find two jobs in the same place (we’re lucky right now, we got jobs at the same place before we met). We’d do it now too, if we had to, though I’d rather not, as I rather like this place.

My home is tied to my husband, not to a location. If I could get a job that would pay a living wage and have me either near an american military base or medical facility that takes tricare, and we could get mrAru a job in the same locality, we would move in a heartbeat. I think he is barred from working for former soviet bloc countries for 3 more years, but other than that anywhere we can muddle along in english until we can run up the local language.

We’ve had opportunities, but haven’t followed through. I think we would move if the opportunity was attractive enough, although there are family complications - his mother getting older (and mine, although mine are ten years younger), our kids getting high school age - that make it hard for the opportunities to be attractive enough while we are both well employed here.

I put “No and I don’t have a family” but technically I do have a family. I just assume the OP meant kids and spouse.

I wouldn’t want to leave my parents and brother and SIL and niece and all my friends here in Ohio. Hell, I don’t even know if I could bare to live 2 hours away from everyone.

If I did have a “family” I might be more inclined to move because I wouldn’t be utterly alone wherever I went.

I think I’d be more inclined to move with a boyfriend/husband than to move small children. Perhaps older children I’d be ok about moving. My concern isn’t so much about leaving schools as it would be leaving free childcare (grammies).

Anyway, I’m in a great place because I can work from wherever I want. My business partner up and moved 800 miles away and we didn’t miss a step. I work for the Internet and as long as the Internet stays in business for the next 30-40 years, I’m good to go from wherever I hang my hat.

Sure I would. And I did. No family, no girlfriend or prospects thereof, 3 of 4 parents passed on (stepfather still alive; I saw him Saturday!), sister and aunts and cousins far away… there’s nothing to hold me back… except what work I’m doing now.

Not only did I answer ‘yes’, but I feel there should have been a "I WANT to move for a job’ option.

Not to get too far into it here, but a combination of not enjoying my current job, lack of advancement opportunities, nothing close to what I want to do in the area, and just being generally sick of this area in general makes me wish I could just go somewhere else and do what I think I want to do…but that’s not possible right now, so I have to keep at it for…umm…several more years. :frowning:

I said no, however as much as I like my area I could be tempted away to a few others ( Portland or Seattle for example ). The big issue is that at this point I couldn’t easily shed my CA mortgage, so I’m sort of stuck. Which is fine as I do love the area and I probably couldn’t make more anywhere else.

I chose “Yes, and I have a family” and “Other”, because while I have kids, they’re over 18 and don’t live with me. In fact, they never lived with me. I’ve been single for going on 10 years now, so not only would I move for a job, I’d move if the wind was blowing just right.

I can’t tell you how sick I am of Maine.

This.

Also, my boyfriend has strong feelings about staying within 2 hours driving distance of his mom just in case of emergency.

I have looked at doing a partial commute, however - just because of the job market.

Definitely, or for my husband’s job, either way. In fact we’re planning to move (back, in his case) to Australia in the next 3-4 years, and we’re seriously considering a stop off in Singapore, or Canada, for a year or so on the way. I have one 4 1/2 year old daughter and another imminent. We’re lucky in that the field we both work in is very globally mobile, and the organisation we both work for is keen on mobility too. When we come to move, we’ll almost definitely move with his job, which means they’ll pay relocation expenses too - always welcome.

This reminds me - I would move for my bf’s job but would never expect him to move for mine. Only because he has a career - and a very specific job skill.

Where I’ve always been a gypsy and have 3-4 job fields I qualify for.

I voted No and I don’t have a family. We moved many many times when I was a kid. I moved many times as a young adult. Now I own my house and have finally grown my own roots. I love my house, street, town, the people and proximity to whatever I need. You will have to pry my cold dead body from this house. :smiley:

When looking for work, I’m not willing to move. In fact, I’d rather not move at all ever again.

But I did move for work once, and that was an established job I had which was forced to relocate, and though I was reluctant, I made the move, which was the right thing to do. Luckily we later got the chance to move again, back to where I was originally staying.

When you blow your nose and your snot is grayish black, yeah, you know there are better places to live.

I would move to a select few places but only if the SO wanted to go too. I would never go to a really really huge city - like NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. Likewise I’d never want to go to a town smaller than 100k people - with a few exceptions made for college towns. We’re young, though. I wouldn’t want to move kids past the 5th grade.

Of course, hitting the lottery money and we’d be in San Francisco in a heartbeat.

I moved to Korea for a job, with a wife and 3 kids, two dogs and a cat.

I did. I moved from NJ to Silicon Valley because I got a lot of money for leaving AT&T and because there were few computer design jobs in NJ. Now I am unlikely to have to move again - my next job changed just reduced my commute.
My wife is a freelance writer, so she can work anywhere.