Three-fourths said they would be at least likely to make the move. Table 2 shows no significant differences by gender or race. Singles are much readier to move than marrieds. They usually have no family to uproot. And they're younger.
Age makes the most difference.
That dropped to a third of those in their 30s and a fourth of the ones 40 or older. Settling in tends to come with age. The older the newsperson, the longer he or she has been at the same station. As detailed elsewhere , average TV journalists in their 20s had been at the same station about two years, compared to five years for those in their 30s and 10 years in place for age 40 and up. One in four TV journalists said they would likely not move to a distant city even for a much better job.