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It seems to me that a smaller town would be a good thing for a doctor from a poor country, no?
Salary will largely be the same (or possibly even higher) and living expenses will be as low as possible. You seem like a guy that's mostly either at work or at home anyway so if you want to do something in the city you can always travel there.
It seems like a pretty good deal when you're starting out.
London sucks the life blood out of the rest of the country. The only other cities I'd call respectable would be Manchester and Edinburgh, not that I've exhaustively traveled the country.
I'm unabashedly a city boy, and not so poor that I consider the lower COL to be a driving factor. London would be tight, but I am best described as the poor son of comfortably well off parents (at least by Indian standards).
However, posts in bigger cities have advantages too. Looks good on your CV. More opportunities for locum work, which pays market rates and is thus often double to quadruple the paltry standard NHS wage.
And while I am a homebody, it's not like I don't leave the house at all, and a bigger city = more and interesting friends to drag me out of my shell.
Sadly the working conditions of NHS doctors makes taking regular trips to the big city a luxury at best, but I plan to work 80% hours if possible, which gives me a free day off during the week (to fuck about or to locum for actual money).
That might prolong the period of my training, but the salary cut is not nearly 20% because it draws from a higher tax bracket.
Not that it's the end of the world, just potentially mildly unpleasant, and you're right that I'll be too busy to really notice or care.
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Right, and large parts of provincial Britain are so poor that the town doctor is one of the richest people there, which isn’t necessarily a terrible place to be if one doesn’t care about the amenities of the big city.
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