Welcome to Pittsburgh's nightmare! PA is also an extemely business unfriendly state, and 2 terms of Tom Ridge who had a Republican legislature did nothing to change it.
IBM had a small presence here in Pittsburgh, of which my wife was a part. Last summer they layed off over 1/2 of their people here, including my wife, and moved many jobs to -- drumroll please -- North Carolina!
We were planning on having my wife stay home with our son anyway, so it forced the issue plus the unemployment $$$ came in handy.
She should have tried to get a transfer. It's great down here.