Good area to relocate to?

Recruiters are for people with marketable experience. Recruiters make money from a facility by finding a new employee that fills a need that the facility couldn't find on its own.

A nurse with 9 months' experience is not worth a recruiter's time. A facility can find someone with those qualifications quite easily.

You need to apply to LTC, rehab, home care, private duty, developmental disability group homes, clinics, prisons, blood banks, plasma centers, dialysis, and, yes, even hospitals. Keep on applying until you get a job. If you can't get hired even by the shady places that advertise on craigslist, then consider relocating.

Caveat, I have no idea what the job market is like in DFW, but the recruiter's opinion doesn't mean much unless you refuse to take a job outside of acute care. And even then, it may be possible, but it won't be through a recruiter.

Seems like a lot of places in Phoenix are hiring, the area is rapidly growing and there's a lot of residency programs out there.

I hear North Dakota is usually desperate for nurses.

That said, I agree with beekee. Recruiters exist to place people in jobs that employers have a hard time filling. These are not typically staff nurse positions.

I'm a new nurse in the Philadelphia area, and it's very competitive here. My classmates who got jobs really fast moved to Nashville (Vanderbilt UMC), Baltimore, and Hershey, PA (Penn State Hershey MC).

Baylor and Parkland

If you are still looking, Atlanta and suburbs around it.