Really? What do you know about West Virginia?

Huntington itself is a small city in WV of 49,000~ people. It is reasonably close to Charleston, WV which has about 51,000~ people in the area. So the population in the area is fairly small. IT is also not a major industry there. Two of these things together indicate a lack of IT positions in general without the specifics of a Perl position

In addition, Zaxo said that he has been unemployed there a while which indicates that there are not a lot of opportunities in the area for him to do what he wants to do.

Telecommuting is not so unreasonable in this day and age

Just because a programmer can do most of their work from by telecommuting does not mean that companies will offer telecommuting jobs. I have been browsing www.dice.com, www.monster.com, and jobs.perl.org for a couple of months and most jobs require you to be on-site at least some of the time. Very, very few positions are 100% off-site telecommuting.

The other problem with telecommuting is that you are competing against everyone else in the country/world(depending on your location) for that position. Even if you are a good programmer, it can be hard to distinguish yourself from 300 to 400 resumes for that one position.

I am not putting down Zaxo, I am trying to encourage him to be a little more flexible. Most people that get a dream job is because the go out and find it, not wait for it to appear on their doorstep. You never know what you might be missing by refusing to expand your skill sets or moving to a new city.