Is it necessary to move to L.A. or New York to begin an acting career?

If I had already been in acting classes, done local theater, and am getting the kind of feedback from people that my work is really good, if I am getting feedback from local newspapers, good reviews (by the way, always keep your reviews. Especially if they are favorable). . . If I felt I had put the time in and I was ready, I would move to a city that was actor friendly. I don't know what it is like in Houston or Dallas but in South Carolina there is a lot of production going on. It is a smaller pond and you can be a bigger fish. Go to New York, go to L.A. and it might be an amazing, awesome experience but maybe you aren't ready for that yet. It would have to be your call on the kind of money you have behind you to support yourself and what are your opportunities, how are you going to survive while you get work? Are you going to wait tables or try to create a company that can support you while get going. To each their own. For me, I was fortunate enough to grow up in New York, so I was close. I went to a major conservatory for theater and had the exposure. I signed up for classes at the Strausburg Institute. I went to Howard Fine Studios in Manhattan for three years. I spent two hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars a month on acting classes. I was in a four year conservatory. I went to school with Edie Falcoe and Wesley Snipes, Steve Weber and Geana Belafonte. These are people that you work with and grow with. When you work in that kind of environment and have already learned that you can play with the best of them, and then you know you are ready. Then you are ready to go to New York, L.A., or go to Vancouver. Just do some research and find out where the productions are and where the work is.