> Here's a question for you: did you go away to
> school, or is your university reasonably close
> to where you live? I went to college in Florida,
> thousands of miles from my home town, and it
> would seem like most of the opportunities
> they'd have had listed in their placement office
> would have been centered in and around that
> area, which I was not (and still am not)
> interested in living in.

I went to university right here in Calgary, and yes, most of the job listings are local. As I've been living here since 1996 (my second year of uni) all my real jobs have been here too. So yeah, that probably makes a bit of difference, too.