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Millennials reluctant to move to where the jobs are

Members of the millennial generation, the estimated 85 million born from 1981 through 2000, prove less restless than their forebears.

By Steve Matthews, Victoria Stilwell | Updated on May 12, 2014

May 12 (Bloomberg) — Ryan Yang could have taken a job in a New Jersey DNA sequencing laboratory after graduating from college last year. Instead, the 23-year-old lives with his family in Queens, New York, still unemployed and searching.

With the expense of commuting or relocating, “I thought about it and it just didn’t seem right,” said Yang, a biology major who rejected the job 50 miles away in Piscataway to look for opportunities closer to home. “If I was previously living in New Jersey, I think I would have taken that job in a heartbeat.”

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