I've been trying to organize a meet with a few of the local members here but besides just happening across a post of theirs (which shows their location), I'm having a tough time finding people in my area.

I think a really great tool would be something simple that lets us search user locations. So I can search for "Portland" or "Oregon" or "OR" and get some results. I realize it's a free-text field so searching can be flaky, but even a load of bad results would be better than clicking through each user one-by-one.

Or am I unaware of some feature that already lets me do this?

And I know that I can just post a topic in the Pacific Northwest Region forum....but not many people bother to go there. Email and PM's are way more productive (with the Oregon folk) in my experience.

Thanks.