It's not like anyone could have a spouse with a local job that he/she needs to keep or aging parents that need care or children going to school in a fantastic school district. Nope. It's not like any of these things are important enough to keep that one should avoid a slightly less bad job on the other side of the country far away from family and friends. Nope. No way.

Look-- it's great that you weren't tied down and (maybe not all that great) that you had no one to keep you where you were. People have loved ones who can't always just up and leave and it's pretty cruel to expect someone to leave everything they love behind just because the job market isn't ideal. Most people will choose family and loved ones over pay and lifestyle, and I have nothing but respect of people who make those choices. You may be where you want to be professionally, but at what expense? I mean, I can guarantee you that there's already a nice handful of strangers who think you're an asshole. I can't imagine what people in real life feel.

Do you really think that those who choose to stay at home don't deserve decent paying jobs? Are you really that full of yourself that you think that you deserve the pay you get, but that those who would like to stay in a place they may have lived their entire lives don't deserve a decent paying job?

It says something about you that you find fault in adjuncts who get taken advantage of rather than in the system that forces individuals that to move 1000 miles to get a decent wage.