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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are plenty of affordable areas of the country to live.[/quote]

And jobs?[/quote]
Rural areas and small towns are desperate for family practice physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.  There's also a big need for skilled tradespeople, mechanics, machinists, etc.  [/quote]

Rural areas and towns are closing their hospitals, and the local doctors and nurses don't make much money if they are just a country doctor (with no hospital).

Why do you think they are desperate?  If it was lucrative you would be able to find people willing to relocate.

In terms of skilled tradespeople...where?  The oil fields of ND need those people as example, but they have a massive housing affordability crisis.
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Not to mention it takes anywhere from 2 years at the minimum to become an RN to 7+ years to become a doctor. "Sure, just quit your job, take on a 1-2 punch of massive debt and no income for years then move to a depressed (and depressing) area all just to be able to afford a house" is not exactly a reasonable suggestion.

And you're exactly correct about the skilled trades being highly location-specific. What all the blue-collar-boosters fail to mention is that their promises of making 6 figures as a tradesperson are very cherry picked. Most welders are making like $20 an hour. Machinists maybe a little more. Sure, in the oilfields or in highly specialized jobs you're making a ton, but for Joe Whitecollar thinking about moving to Ohio to become a machinist as their ticket to the good life? Think again. [/quote]

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