And without any ability to predict the future, there's no real bad decision to make at this point. Sure, there are better places to work than others but unless you can somehow predict that a company will go out of business before you retire it's not like you'll be working in a salt mine somewhere. If I had a place where I HAD to live, I'd definitely give up a year or two of seniority to be hired by the hometown airline rather than commute to whomever called me first.