How funny. I'm in Dallas. I did finally end up getting out to a small local company here, but as I said it took two years. I didn't apply much locally, though, since I couldn't find much that wasn't enterprise CRUD work. Except for my current company, those I did apply to (Lockheed, General Dynamics, CapitalOne, Gearbox, a few others I have forgotten) never contacted me over my resume.

But yes, I know geography matters. That only helped the rational part, though.