If I lifted you up and put you down in Austin, are you saying you'd be completely unable to find work?
No, but I'd certainly prefer to find work before moving.
If one single person can move first and find a job second, why can't one married person do the same (on the assumption that the other one has already found a job)?
There are a lot of dual-income couples who would be severely stressed by losing one of their incomes.
Relocating when only one person has a job would result in a large decrease in consumption - from a house/car/groceries to a smaller house, cheaper car and trader joe instead of whole foods.
No alcohol, but it's the same ownership as Trader Joe's I think (and cheaper, also with lots of good cheese)
I live a three minute walk from Wegmans but I would rather drive to Aldi's; you don't escape Wegmans with three bags of groceries for $40-60.
Let's say I'm an expert in discovering new drugs, and my partner is a dancer for a professional ballet company.
For me to take a job that ended her professional career (or vice-versa) the payoff would have to be huge.
For example, my friend is a civil engineer. There's lots of civil engineering jobs in the US, but his wife works as a chemical engineer. Chemical engineering jobs are largely where either oil/gas deposits are, or large amounts of water (water for processing and/or waterways/railroad for shipping). So I imagine for them it will be where ever she needs to move he'll need to follow, versus the other way around, lest they end up in some place where she can't use the degree she spent 4 years getting.