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human
When applying to Faculty positions, is it reasonable to limit your search to one State for a partner?

Hello! I am a 2nd year PhD student and am seriously considering pursuing a professorship once I graduate. Please forgive my ignorance around this topic as there's not much conversation about this in my department, and I've really only been in academia for a year now since I went straight into my PhD. 

From what I understand about faculty positions, people usually apply to as many positions as they can nation wide, and frequently end up moving to the university that gives them the best offer. However, I am in a serious long term relationship, and since I've brought up the idea of a potentially needing to move after my PhD, my partner has emphasized that they want to remain in the state that we are in now (Michigan) long term, maybe indefinitely. 

So my question is, **is it reasonable to only apply to faculty positions in one state, especially if my goal is to conduct research? How have people navigated having to move around with non-academic partners in the mix?**

The moving thing seems like it may be a deal breaker for my partner, but I've heard horror stories of some women looking for faculty positions around their partners and it stagnating their careers which I don't want to do. Any contributions are extremely appreciate as right now I feel like I need to choose either my career or my partner!
gpt
“Give them the best offer” is optimistic. “Give them *any* offer” is more like it. You’re definitely limiting yourself, but how much is going to depend on your field and research and desired teaching load. Everyone needs people to teach CS courses, or Psych 101! Michigan has some big universities. In general though, the “trailing spouse” thing is a real tough situation and it’s going to depend a lot on your personal situation.