I'm not sure if search engine marketing counts as High Tech career but I can't find a career / jobs tribe and I would really like to get some opinions / 2 cents

This is the short version :o

I've been working for a company doing search engine blogging using SEM methods. I hate living in Los Angeles and love living in Austin, Texas.

Austin TX jobs are not great. I would have to take at least a $5 per hour pay cut just to find a job and back into Admin if I wanted to stay here.

I'm creating a letter to my current company in hopes of convincing them to allow me to let me stay working virtual – however I highly doubt the owner will say yes. However even if they do... my career with this job is at a dead end or seems like it. I'm contastantly left out of the loop in my own projects.

I've received some promising interest in anther state that is a lot colder than Austin but the cost of living is almost as high as Los Angeles.

So do I

a) take a shitty job and try to go back to school and wait it out (the pay cut would really hurt financially)

b) Go back to my home town of Seattle where I could probably (no one has offered yet) find a job and be happy but colder but probably push my career ahead

any 2 cents?