Scala is good if you have good programmers. Otherwise, it's painful, because they tend to write Java-in-Scala code. Also, it has a compile-speed problem that is tolerable in general but catastrophic if you have bad engineering practices (specifically, cyclical dependencies).

I just got back into Clojure after leaving my last job and the language (which was already very good) has gotten a whole lot better in the past 2 years. I recommend it highly.

Where do you live? What's the tech scene like in <X>? My wife and I are both ready to leave New York. We'll stay if I find something great, but I don't want to work in social media and my "job hopper" story (too many startups and consulting projects, NYC finance firms tending to perceive the latter as similar to short-term jobs even though they're not) is making finance annoying. (I can still get hedge-fund jobs, that's easy as crap, but there are few good ones and, besides, I like technology a lot better than finance.) Our short list is SF, Austin, Boston, but not limited to those 3 places by any means.