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Same here ... I'm working full time with a distributed team, and it's beyond fantastic for me. I go a few times a week to a co-working place to get my fill of geeky watercooler talk and lunch with people. My collaboration is done primarily over chat (hipchat, but can easily be irc, slack, etc.), and we have a video conference once a week for the team to sync up ... not to mention git, etc.

I totally get that there's lots of enterprises that just aren't set up, culturally, to work with a distributed team ... but you know what, maybe that's how you (OP) can differentiate yourself from your competitors; by hiring the best talent, regardless of where they are physically located. It works, there's tons of companies that are moving to this model and getting great work done.