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I guess it depends on what you are okay with. Would you rather scramble to meet your location needs (5 hours from home),or be somewhere for a year that you really don't like? If you don't rank some of the places and decrease your chances of matching, you will have to ask yourself if you are okay with being in Phase II.
I matched to a site in a town that I had never heard of prior to match, in a state I probably thought about once in my life prior to match. However, after internship, opportunities in my best interest professionally kept me here. I am about two hours away from where I did my internship and I was hired as a licensed psychologist at the same site I completed my postdoc. My internship TD is still my boss; although now I see him once every few months instead of every day
Point is, I think flexibility in relocation is very important, except in certain circumstances that involve children or a spouse in which relocation for them would be difficult. The quality of the training you receive is more important, in my opinion, than geographic region. Also if you want to specialize, making connections during internship will serve you well.