I moved to Atlanta from Dallas as a new hire since I didn't want to commute anyway. I especially didn't want to make that commute. I used to work at Spirit; it wasn't uncommon on the morning Spirit flight from DFW-ATL we would have 5-7 Delta FAs/pilots desperately trying to get on at 7am for their evening-late evening show as Delta was booked all day; no thanks!

With that said I'm impressed how cheap tickets are, even last minute. I bought a confirmed for even less to Dallas for $160...for first class. I flew with a Dallas Captain who usually buys $65 tickets on American. You could make an argument to stay in Texas; you could offset most of the tickets to work in just state income tax alone. You could also make the argument what is your time worth sitting in MD88 jumpseats, airport terminals, crappy airport hotels.

Either way, I couldn't be more happy to not be commuting. There's way more opportunities to make more money, much more scheduling flexibility, and Atlanta is far more redeeming than the College Park layovers I used to do and associate Atlanta with. Good luck!