Happens on a regular basis in the corporate world. It is amazing how people take jobs and their families don't move with them. I have worked with execs who worked in Rochester and commuted home to places like Phoenix, Pittsburgh, etc on weekends. and it wasn't just a few months, some were years. I just found out a friend who lives in the Houston area took a job in Minneapolis and is going to do the same. Sometimes companies will pay for their housing and commutes. I don't get how companies can afford to do something like that but they do.