An anonymous reader writes: I'm a consultant with over 20 years of professional experience in application and database development with some networking/security and web development experience under my belt, and I'm currently finishing up my Masters' in Comp. Sci (via distance learning).
I'm sick and tired of both consulting and living on the East Coast and I'm looking to move west where there's some more "elbow room" (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, or the like — mountains or high desert a must) and the opportunity to live in a more "rural" fashion.
My question to the slashdot community is this: Given that a large percentage of technology jobs are clustered around the larger metro areas, what advice (serious, please) do any of you have regarding the easiest and/or best way to make a transition from my current situation to a work-from-home opportunity that would allow me to live where I wanted without forcing me to change my career to firewatcher?