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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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Yes. I have a family member who became a nurse at a rural hospital in part because the local nursing school offered a bunch of incentives including tuition reimbursement if you worked at the hospital for a certain number of years after getting your degree.

Turns out it is actually hard to make more than poverty wages at times because of how the hospital staffs. It's common for her to have 4 scheduled shifts in a week but be "called off" of two of them because they will adjust their staffing last based on bed occupancy numbers. Her income is extremely variable and it's been hard to figure out housing even though though in theory housing is very cheap there because some months she barely makes enough to pay for food and gas. Her goal was to be able to buy a house there after a few years in this job but she's struggled to save. It's not as steady as she thought it would be and I think it won't get steady until she has at least 5-7 years of experience. [/quote]

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