What's your point? Yes some people may want to live in the middle of nowhere and there are more career opportunities out there. You may even live on a resort somewhere. An advantage of FM is that you can practice even abroad, like in Australia, and get paid well. But what if I want to practice in NYC? If you read some posts you'll notice that nyc is oversaturated. Primary care doctors only do well-woman exams and prescribe common medications. If they want anything more complex they work as hospitalists. So what's good in NYC?
And I never said I wanted to be any kind of street doctor. But if an acquaintance asks me for some casual medical advice I dont want to be like a pathologist, I want to be impressive. But more importantly I want to have a life outside of medicine. I know I would have everything including job stability if I could get into Ortho. But I don't think I will ever match ortho..
Anyway which specialty is most lifestyle friendly: anesthesiology, family medicine, or ER?