Joe wrote
Rod Speed wrote

And plenty more refuse to move to where the work is too.

Moving house is vastly more expensive now than it was forty years ago,

BULL**** when you are renting.

thanks to the 'mansion' stamp duty now applying
to most housing in large towns and cities.

None of that involved when you are renting.

It's also a lot more difficult if you have school-age children.

That's bull**** too. Same as forty years ago.

Do the arithmetic: it's worth moving house for a well-paid
job, it isn't for anything less and particularly for around
minimum wage, which most jobs now are.

That's bull**** too.