Why so many anesthesiology residency vacancies?

[coffeebythelake]

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i am on faculty at a well known academic medical center in a major city. most people would consider it a desirable place to live. we've always filled our spots and if anything our candidate pool and incoming residents have been better than ever (at least on paper)

 

[GravelRider]

Do you have any conception of commuting times in the NY area? I live 20 miles N of NYC in one of the closest towns to NYC in Westchester. Driving time into NYC would be north of an hour, easily, during rush hour. Wife's commute via train from station to Grand Central is about 30 minutes, but that doesn't include commuting time on either end of that. Her total commute time is 1:15.

And like I said, any real estate near me is astronomicaly expensive. There are no 500k houses near me.

And the school district thing is no joke, here. Are schools here better on average than other states? If course. Does that mean the public schools in every town are great? Far from it.

The point I am trying to make is that you can still be in the NYC orbit and maintain a reasonable cost of living. It is possible. I am presenting an option for someone who wants to be in NYC instead of has to be in NYC. If you have a spouse that has to work in NYC then hopefully his or her salary is high enough to offset some of the increased cost of living. I am not denying that the suburbs close to NYC are exorbitantly expensive, either. That’s why I don’t live there.

I’ve never commuted to NYC from suburbs...nor do I want to. Most jobs for anesthesiologists are terrible in NYC anyway, so why would you? But on a Saturday, you can get to NYC from pretty far north, south, east, and west in under an hour. Again, weekday commuting is a different story. I grew up in nyc suburbs, so I have some familiarity with the school district thing. I think it’s over-hyped. Again, that’s my opinion. My parents now live around 50-60 miles from Manhattan and I can be in midtown from their house in exactly an hour on a no-traffic Saturday (train would be about an hour and a half). My parents live on an acre and their house is probably worth around 500k. They also live in an area where the realtors go nuts over school districts. I think it’s hype.

My point is, if you are struggling to live comfortably on an anesthesiologist salary in NYC metro or any similar area, it’s time to re-examine some things.

 

[facted]

The point I am trying to make is that you can still be in the NYC orbit and maintain a reasonable cost of living. It is possible. I am presenting an option for someone who wants to be in NYC instead of has to be in NYC. If you have a spouse that has to work in NYC then hopefully his or her salary is high enough to offset some of the increased cost of living. I am not denying that the suburbs close to NYC are exorbitantly expensive, either. That’s why I don’t live there.

I’ve never commuted to NYC from suburbs...nor do I want to. Most jobs for anesthesiologists are terrible in NYC anyway, so why would you? But on a Saturday, you can get to NYC from pretty far north, south, east, and west in under an hour. Again, weekday commuting is a different story. I grew up in nyc suburbs, so I have some familiarity with the school district thing. I think it’s over-hyped. Again, that’s my opinion. My parents now live around 50-60 miles from Manhattan and I can be in midtown from their house in exactly an hour on a no-traffic Saturday (train would be about an hour and a half). My parents live on an acre and their house is probably worth around 500k. They also live in an area where the realtors go nuts over school districts. I think it’s hype.

My point is, if you are struggling to live comfortably on an anesthesiologist salary in NYC metro or any similar area, it’s time to re-examine some things.

60 miles from NYC is not the NYC metro area. If course if you live upstate, you can find great property for 500k, and live well on 300k. But that's not the same as doing so in the ACTUAL NYC metro area, where property is not 500k. You're telling me Newburgh is metro NYC, for example?