[rdouble]

It's pretty region and skill specific.

If you live somewhere outside of about 4 or 5 locations in the USA, getting a programming job can be hard. Also, skills that are hot in a place like NYC or Silicon Valley are often next to useless in other areas. (learning this the hard way)

[achille]

Would you mind expanding on your last sentence. What was your personal experience? I'm guessing you have Rails/NoSQL experience while the jobs at your current market tend to be Java/Oracle type?

[rdouble]

Yes, that is pretty much exactly what I meant.

[mahyarm]

It's ok to move, many will pay for relocation!