Houston TX has extremely few embedded jobs. Austin TX has far more.

The most reliable method is to ask for example a Microchip FAE.

Once I moved from Toronto to Texas it was bad. I would like to get back to Toronto again. I hate Texas! Toronto is one of the most livable cities in the world.

Outside of the USA, Shanghai and Bangalore are hiring in boat loads. I've recently been contacted by headhunters hiring in Houston, San Diego (Qualcomm), and Portland/Seattle. I know that Analog Devices is up in Portland where the famous Barrie Gilbert of the Gilbert cell works. Locally in Ottawa, the high tech and political capital of Canada, TSMC was on a hiring binge recently. They're having trouble finding analog circuit designers.

Colorado doesn't show up on your map even though there's quite a bit of high tech acitivity that goes on there. They may not be hiring, but there's a healthy industry there going from Colorado Springs up to Denver up to Longmont and up to Ft. Collins.

Cherish has it right. People don't want to leave the big cities. Ottawa is a nice size at around 1 million. I'm not interested in moving to any place that's significantly smaller. If I were interested in moving to the US, Fargo wouldn't even enter the picture unless I was on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. After all, why go from a freezing cold city to a freezing colder town in the middle of nowhere?
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