How are so many people okay with this? Just abandoning the people that raised you for undergrad/phd/postdoc/job? I mean of course it makes sense for some people, but it seems like literally everyone I meet is from a different country/state and wants to stay out of home.

I only started noticing this because I couldn't get a job or phd in my own state (fucking california will collapse under its own weight soon) and now I'm probably never gonna make it back, nor do I necessarily even want to at this point.

Why do soientists hate their families and why do academic institutions hate the locals who they steal taxdollars from?