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Going into my second year as an attending. Likely moving to a more EM-friendly state. No children, not married, no obligate ties to anywhere in the country.
On one hand, there's where I feel like I should live (good salaries, good medicolegal climate and reform, +/- no state income tax, decent job market, lower cost of living -- Texas and the like).
Then there's where I want to live in the sense that I prefer more seasons in my weather, wouldn't mind some mountains in my back yard, etc. Oregon, Washington, northern CA, Colorado maybe. As I understand it, legal climate sucks in the PNW; good in CO, but money often isn't.
Reminds me of the "scheduling (or group), location, salary: pick two" sayings. But for those more seasoned than I, I'm just curious: how did you reconcile this sort of thing? I pacify myself by saying that the pay raise with relatively more time off that would come with moving to a more lucrative part of the country could easily provide for relatively frequent trips to wherever I want, but I imagine it's not the same as living there.
On one hand, there's where I feel like I should live (good salaries, good medicolegal climate and reform, +/- no state income tax, decent job market, lower cost of living -- Texas and the like).
Then there's where I want to live in the sense that I prefer more seasons in my weather, wouldn't mind some mountains in my back yard, etc. Oregon, Washington, northern CA, Colorado maybe. As I understand it, legal climate sucks in the PNW; good in CO, but money often isn't.
Reminds me of the "scheduling (or group), location, salary: pick two" sayings. But for those more seasoned than I, I'm just curious: how did you reconcile this sort of thing? I pacify myself by saying that the pay raise with relatively more time off that would come with moving to a more lucrative part of the country could easily provide for relatively frequent trips to wherever I want, but I imagine it's not the same as living there.