Practice Location

[The White Coat Investor]

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Two comments:

And as much as I like to move every 5 years, my wife doesn't find this ideal, and would like to find a homestead.

In EM, it pays to homestead. For instance in my group it takes 2 years to make partner, then 5 more years before you are fully vested in your buyout. If you leave the group before retirement you have to pay for your tail (~$55K). If most of your jobs are like that bouncing around every 5 years will really hurt you financially. And unfortunately, most of the good jobs in EM ARE like that.

Specifically, while practice environment, geography, night life, etc are important,

Everyone is different. For instance, I could care less about night life. How often do you think we go out with 3 young kids? I'm much more interested in a safe neighborhood where the kids can ride their bikes not too far from the hospital than I am about who tweets what from which nightclub. Likewise, geography will be really important to some (like me) and not important to others. Some people just want to be "on the East Coast." Whereas the more picky folks (like myself) demand to be within minutes of a ski resort and an international airport or some other similar desires.

As far as practice environment, I think Texas or Indiana would be great places to work. But there is no way in hell you'd ever get me to live there.

 

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As far as practice environment, I think Texas or Indiana would be great places to work. But there is no way in hell you'd ever get me to live there.

Well, you go where your interests lie. Mine are on a boat, specifically one that's big. Yours are more mountainous. I don't like shoveling snow, and don't mind the heat (index here was 105 today, but I didn't use air conditioning in my Jeep).

So while people can argue which city is better as far as "stuff to do", the basics of 1) open jobs, 2) good market, 3) good pay, etc are less subjective and more objective.