I'm in Houston, TX, under the same name as here. I've been going around the area of downtown where I work, and I've hacked and gotten keys to portals in much of the south-eastern suburbs where I live, but it seems like three guys on the Enlightened team are pretty well entrenched around here.
My only real complaint about the game is that, if you're in a situation like me, it can be pretty well impossible to *do* anything. All of the portals around here are owned by the Enlightened, and most are rocking energy ratings in the 16K area. I've acquired several XMP bursters but, as a level 1, I can't use the level 2 or 3 bursters. I've tried attacking the weakest portal I found (about 8K energy) that was stocked with L1 and L2 resonators, but firing 3 bursters only knocked it down from 8K to 7.7K. And I'm still not even a quarter of the way to level 2, which is making the game begin to feel very tedious. I'm guessing that you probably level a lot more for actually "capturing" a portal, but what do you do when that's not an option?
Maybe I'm missing something?