Most freelance developers are essentially contractors - working full time and often hired through another company.

What are the best options for real freelancing or small business built around development skills? (I am only looking for local clients, odesk etc is not interesting)

Most options open for small companies are web sites. But most clients don't want to pay much, and there are lots of people that are willing to do it for very little money. Think if you want to do money that way you must be a "web site" business.

Think the best option should be to work for companies spending a lot of resources on web and db?

How could I get in touch with them?

Other ideas?

Part of my concept is to use some off-shoring to complement my skillset, so i should be able to do PHP or Drupal even if I am not at expert level.