[DrFalkyn]

I thought it was the exact opposite. European universities were a lot harder to get a faculty appointment. And they tended to favor local candidates , Which is why you see a lot of US universities have foreign professors, but not as many European universities that do

[geremiiah]

I was not talking about faculty appointments, but more junior academics. For people at that level I would think it even less likely that they would upend their whole life like this. They are probably married with kids at that point.

[DrFalkyn]

In academia you are forced to go where the jobs are, or else you leave the field. Yes I have known people married with kids who move overseas