What does it mean when they say...?

[Prodigal]

There's this girl I talk to online quite often. She's intelligent, witty, can be both deep and funny. She's great.

When we write e-mails to each other, we are like very close friends (which we are). I sense a lot of flirtation but I don't know if it is just the way she is (which I doubt), how she is with friends she is comfortable with (big possibility), or if she likes me.

In her last e-mail, she told me that she "wishes there were guys like me in Alaska (she doesn't really live there, lol. I just don't want to say her real location)".

Why would she say this if she didn't like me? Because she thinks I'm a good guy and she wishes there were good guys there? If so, for what reason other than dating? As a friend, I'm almost equivalent online as I am in real life. I guess this could be a possibility, because she sandwiched that comment in between saying how honored she was to be in correspondence with me, etc. It could just be high respect for me.

But, then again... she later said how the guys over there where she lives aren't her "cup of tea".. how I'm part of an exclusive group of guys that she 'thinks is good' (shared with her brother and a guy who is strictly a friend... once again, major ambiguity). She also said that the fact that there are no guys like me there is better because it makes me all the more unique and special.

Comments? I would like a second opinion here... thanks for reading