Thinking about where I want to do residency, and where I would enjoy living (and potentially working afterwards), is there anyone from Montana/Wyoming/Idaho/Dakotas/Nebraska? What's it like to live out there? How bad (or good?) is it?
Keep in mind it's not hard to stay so busy in med school or residency that you hardly even step outside let alone appreciate where you live besides shoveling your car out from under snow or hiding in a storm cellar and the like.
Nebraska is one great big farm.
My God where is this program? I’m all in.Yeah, don't underestimate how much cost of living factors in. Being broke in a city like LA isn't that much better than being very comfortable in Montana.
For med school, and residency especially, it's good to think about commute and parking. It's also nice not to have things be too tight, to easily afford car repairs and other sort of nightmareish things coming up.
I'm known residents that could financially manage having a cheap maid once a week, which can really help.
A yard for their dog, a dogwalker. (I'm not big on having a dog in residency but some people manage).
Saving money can help you fly out and make the most of golden weekends and vacations, too.
Don't underestimate what living somewhere slow and cheap can do for your QOL for the time you're in residency.
Lastly, some of the programs in those sorts of locations are just more pleasant on a day to day basis for a lot of reasons.
I looked at one program in the middle of nowhere Michigan. You know what though? 3/4 of your weekends even starting in intern year were always golden, all year long for the whole residency. People got out early. No one had more than a 15 minute commute in no traffic. Almost everyone lived in a nice and affordable house, whether they rented or were buying. Despite many being married, given there wasn't much else around, the residents were all quite close and spent loads of time together having low key fun, and they had the time to do so.
Was it boring? Sure. Were they overworked and miserable for 3 years? No. Life is a series of trade offs.
Some great National Parks out there!Thinking about where I want to do residency, and where I would enjoy living (and potentially working afterwards), is there anyone from Montana/Wyoming/Idaho/Dakotas/Nebraska? What's it like to live out there? How bad (or good?) is it?
Some great National Parks out there!
There really is a KalamazooMy God where is this program? I’m all in.
I went to no less than 11 National Parks and Monuments in a 10 day road trip this past June. The year before that it was probably closer to 20.
I bought a National Parks Geek sticker at a gift shop.
Minnesota Nice
Had to GTS.
To be fair the Dakotas and Nebraska have nothing on that. Idaho isn't as nice either. I would easily live in Wyoming or Montana for medical school or residency
Some great National Parks out there!
Winter will make a serious attempt kill you from Dec to Mar, though.
eh, when I was there it was a lot of high desert that I didn't really love, and it has a real problem with tweakers. Not that different from Eastern OR or WA in a few regards. It gets hotter though, and to my knowledge doesn't have as good of skiing that OR does.What the hell are you talking about? There’s a reason that Idaho is the fastest growing state in the union. It’s pleasant as ****.
I'll admit I'm not as familiar with the Dakotas (lived there as a preschooler), but they are pretty flat (sorry I'm just really partial to mountains). The badlands are cool. Probably best to ask someone else about those states.
TL;DR? Check out Bozeman, Montana or Omaha, Nebraska
To be fair the Dakotas and Nebraska have nothing on that. Idaho isn't as nice either. I would easily live in Wyoming or Montana for medical school or residency
Idaho is amazing. There's hardly a place in the state where you can't see mountains. I don't think you can say the same thing about eastern Montana.What the hell are you talking about? There’s a reason that Idaho is the fastest growing state in the union. It’s pleasant as ****.
Montana:
Wyoming:
And WY has a town named Lusk. Who the **** would name a town Lusk? IDK why but that has always bothered me.Sure, but to be fair:
Wyoming:
Montana:
They are some big states. I would live on the western side of either, you couldn't pay me enough to live in the east. Of course, one person's heaven is another person's hell.
And WY has a town named Lusk. Who the **** would name a town Lusk? IDK why but that has always bothered me.
And yet the state government perpetually acknowledges this while simultaneously cutting the budgets allocated to the department of human services and department of corrections and rehabilitation (both of which are grossly underfunded, and their funding comes from the same allocated pool, with the DCR receiving a larger chunk and creating considerable animosity between the two despite largely serving the same population, and the animosity ultimately results in even poorer care for pts...) every biennium, and puts up considerable roadblocks for MAT despite significant CD issues in ND. But I’m not bitter or anything...lack of healthcare resources (especially mental health )
“The town of Lusk is known for being the county seat of the least populated county in the least populated state in the US. In comparison, the county is approximately twice the size of the state of Rhode Island, with only 1/500 of the population”
And yet the state government perpetually acknowledges this while simultaneously cutting the budgets allocated to the department of human services and department of corrections and rehabilitation (both of which are grossly underfunded, and their funding comes from the same allocated pool, with the DCR receiving a larger chunk and creating considerable animosity between the two despite largely serving the same population, and the animosity ultimately results in even poorer care for pts...) every biennium, and puts up considerable roadblocks for MAT despite significant CD issues in ND. But I’m not bitter or anything...
.... twice the size of the state of Rhode Island,...”.
Idaho isn't as nice either
to my knowledge doesn't have as good of skiing that OR does
apparently I've only driven through and camped in the ass section with a lot tweakersI can't even . . .