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As a nerd who also married a doctor and went rural - 1) Doctors tend to make more money in rural areas. Hospitals/practices tend to offer higher salaries/bonus
by stevehawk 7y ago
As a nerd who also married a doctor and went rural -
1) Doctors tend to make more money in rural areas. Hospitals/practices tend to offer higher salaries/bonuses/etc in order to draw talent. My wife makes roughly 50% more in an area of 30,000 people (mind you, we're talking a pretty large geographic area) than she would in Miami.
2) Money goes further. My 4500sq ft home on 1.2 acres of land is worth considerably less than my previous 1700sq ft townhome on .1 acre of land back in northern Virginia near DC.
personal opinion:
3) Some of us just don't want to live in a city. A weekend trip to a city a couple of times a year is enough for me.
- hockeybias 7y agoI'm told nature is beautiful.
- Aperocky 7y agoGlad it worked out for you, currently still stuck (near) a city. But at least it's an hour from downtown and parking a truck is not a problem at all. I wouldn't mind at all to live in the remotest of nature, as long as there is internet. My SO would probably be bored shitless.
- repiret 7y agoAs yet another nerd married to a doc in a rural area (Hines, OR, 90 min south of GP's John Day, and similarly remote), I'll also point out that rural docs have a broader scope of practice - to some extend they make more money because they do some work that is done by specialists in urban and suburban areas.