Ah Pullman, ah the Palouse wheat fields. I did my graduate work at Pullman and really liked the isolation and the rolling wheat fields and the family of quail that was born under my trailer. This was back before there were such things as personal computers so I have no first hand knowledge of the job market there but some things never change. Pullman is a college town. The University and the wheat farmers and a few small businesses is all there is. If you want to do perl in person (remote telecommute is another option), then you'll work for the University. Get in touch with the computer systems folks, with the folks at the compsci dept., with folks at other departments you have an interest in and see what they're using. Moscow has more culture than Pullman (unless you consider Greek culture to be culture,and I'm not talking about Homer) so try the uni there too.