It's not only not that simple, it's not even clear to me it's the right answer. The right answer is probably something involving employers understanding that this is a hard time right now and you need to be flexible.
It is just one more failure to come up with a robust solution to the problem here.
Immigrants land in places without a social net or help or support network literally 100% of the time. Often moving to places where language and culture and geography is starkly different from what they are used to reach for their best interests.
It is not the end of the world. To refuse to leave the cozy familiarity of ones social network is understandable only to those who feel the he same way.
Most immigrants I know leave their home countries and the coziness of familiarity for their children. And moving around America even temporarily is not the same as moving across oceans for a better quality of life.
Employment contracts should be examined due to the extraordinary circumstances we are in and that would depend on the companies. I was only replying to specific comments that may or may not have anything to do with OP.
Everyone sacrifices. If moving is your biggest sacrifice, consider yourself more than blessed.
Plus, this solution isn't highly scalable; only so many people can do it.
You don't have to move half-way across the country. Pick any high rent location in the United States, there's a lower rent location 30 minutes away. SV included.
so you're saying they are already getting the highest salary they could've gotten then (adjusted for cost of living etc)?
> this solution isn't highly scalable; only so many people can do it
If people move away enmass, then the demand for said worker increases, which should (at least, under the great invisible hand!) increase the salary, and a new balance reached. So it should only take a small % of people moving away due to low pay to affect the pay.