You're not wrong (generally speaking, specifically speaking I use the NYT rent vs. ownership calculator to see if it's worth buying or investing in the sp500)
But the problem here is entirely the lack of flexibility. Once an employer knows you are less flexible than the guy in the next cube, you're picking up the slack of the guy that can up and move his ass to the next town over in a week.
Nah. Not really. Time zones don't follow state boundaries because they generally follow natural population boundaries.