If you are from an out-station base and want to live there it's awesome. If not, it sucks. There is no reasonable way to commute to most out stations. The vast majority of pilots commute. Especially pilots early in their careers. Silver is not going to be able to recruit pilots outside of Florida with their current system in today's hiring environment. If Silver wants to remain a small Florida/Bahamas operation then the current basing will probably work for them. If they have any desire to grow outside of Florida then they better get the Gulfstream stank off of them and act like a real airline. I'm not saying that every pilot has to be based in a mega-hub, but they at least have to base pilots in places with reasonable options for commuting. For example, I don't think everyone in the northeast would have to be based in IAD, but they should at least be based in places like CLE, BUF, PIT, DTW, etc.