It is not uncommon for people to have to relocate for a job. In the past it was common for people with a certain skill to move to a city where that skill was more important. Knowing how to fix cars might lead someone to Detroit, just like knowing about lumber might bring someone to the Northwest. After that it was also common for people to search for any job in a different place because there might be more opportunities in a different city or state.
No matter what the job was, if the pay was good, then the person would pick up and move to that new place based solely on the fact that they would have a job waiting for them when they got there. However, there are some other aspects of moving for a job that are a little strange, even though they are also just as common. There are two specific examples that come to mind. The first is people moving to big cities to find jobs that have to do with computers, and the second is people who still flock to LA and Hollywood in hopes of making it in the film industry.
These are two instances in which people are moving to a specific place for a job that could exist from any place in the country, or moving somewhere just because they have to in order to try and make one of their dreams come true. Let us look at something like Manhattan graphic design. Any computer job, especially graphic design and web design, have to be done from a very specific location: in front of a computer.
The beauty of this is that a computer can be almost anywhere in the world and still work. However, most people who get a degree in something like graphic design often move to cities like Manhattan or Seattle in hopes that they can find a job at some big design company. It is possibly understandable that a person would have to go to specific place to find that job, but once it is had there is not really any reason to go into the office and work. We live in a day and age where computers connect people as quickly as they can in the real world without computers.
You can have a face to face conversation with your boss from thousands of miles away. Even if they have some quick change that you have to make on a project, it would still be possible to tell you all the details in person as you work on your computer–from the other side of the country. Why are people in the country still moving for jobs that can be done from home? This is still not as strange as people having to move to LA to try and make it in the acting world.
It is the converse of the computer problem–if you want to make it as a famous actor, there is really only one place to start. If you decide that this is the route for you, then good luck. There is not much advice or criticism that anyone can give you other than this: the odds are not in your favor. In the tough economic times that we live in, it is becoming more and more common for people to move from job to job, city to city, and even state to state. Having a job is a luxury that many people do not have, so if one shows up and is a few hundred miles away some people are willing to make that sacrifice for work.