I wish I could say Oregon was for you (I love it here), but it seems impossible for new graduates to get a job. I know people who earned their masters degree 3 years ago and they're still half time, subbing or waiting tables. I moved right after Coventry and the hiring freezes came a couple years later. But then again, you're in DC. From my time teaching in Baltimore, I'd rather be slumming it on the west coast than getting bank back east. WA seems to have more opportunity than we do. You'll see a lot of people from IA and MN in the Northwest!