...but don't put yourself inside a box.
It can be a crutch sometimes when we focus too much on location. It's a great place to start, but it is also limiting. Just as an example, let's say you want to stay in and around Texas. For the most part we would start by looking at Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana schools. This gives us quite a few options from D1 all the way to NAIA. But how many options really?