I have a CFI buddy who was hell bent on working at Eagle here in DFW. He blew the sim eval, took some kind of expensive Flight Safety course, went back and passed the sim eval and got hired. Didn't care one bit about upgrades or anything...just wanted to stay in DFW and he's single w/ no ties. I was scratching my head on that one but he got what he wanted and I guess that's all that matters.