Commuting wasn't the issue then, it was the going out of business part that was coming. I was flying 135 when I finally stopped; I was tied to my phone with very few hard days off and my wife was very pregnant with our second child. Going to an airline then would have had me in training during her childbirth and staying with the operator I was with was no longer viable, so I took a break.

Now, short commuting is not really an issue, though a DC area base would be nice.