• Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
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    7 months ago

    Go pull up the doctor to patient ratios for Red cities. There are few red cities or at least what we would consider a city. Cities tend to lean blue. Most doctors don’t want to be rural. I didn’t want to go rural after medical school.

    Abortion laws are driving away OBGYN and I don’t blame them. It doesn’t appear to be driving away other doctors. If I was still practicing, I would move because of the law unless I was tied to abortion to some degree.

    Most financial companies require onsite work. They rarely allow remote work due to regulations. It’s why so many have moved to Florida.

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      7 months ago

      My cousin lived in Texas until last year. He’s an ENT and his youngest kiddo is a 2yo girl. Doctors are in short supply, they can move wherever they want just like IT workers. He moved for the sake of his daughter, even though she was only two at the time.

      My company is offering priority relocation on any workers that are located in states that ban abortion. That contributed dramatically to the closure of the Houston office.

      Red / MAGA policies are unpopular with a majority of college graduates. From everything I have seen in read, there is a brain drain going on that isn’t immediately evident or being actively reported on. It will be blatantly obvious in the coming years though.

      Heck, My sister lived in Orlando and they moved back to Michigan when they couldn’t get a vaccine for their toddler because of DeSantis, and because of book banning and other crazy with the schools.