I actually did move because I was not able to find ANYTHING near where I was living. (Pittsburgh, PA -> Tucson, AZ). I am taking slight risk, Tucson does not have Perl programmers to compete with me but it means if I don't like my job I will not be able to find another one.

Perl has pockets where it is extremely popular and places where no one uses it. If you want to do Perl(as a career), you are probably going to have to move. You could get lucky and be hired to do programming someplace that has not committed itself to a language and programming staff, but they can be few and far between.