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Not a counter to your comment, just a field report on Cincinnati, since you mentioned Ohio:

Supply of ruby developers is lagging demand, with two well-known and growing agile-development companies with a ruby bent (http://neo.com/ * & http://gaslight.co) & a host of funded ruby-based startups coming out of The Brandery http://www.brandery.org/ that are hiring at market rates.

It's an underrated city with great arts & entertainment, and an active community of developers.

* my employer

[rybosome]

When I left Columbus about a year and a half ago, it didn't seem as though there were any serious opportunities for my Ruby skills. I saw plenty of Java, C# and PHP work, but that was basically it.