Life decision-where to look to live/work next?

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Short & sweet version:

27 year old single guy working as a Registered Nurse for last 2 years in long term care. I've been working/living in a small town but my entire social circle here is moving/going in every direction over the next 6 months/combine a general desire to move back to the city come the fall.

Only real City where I have a large concentration of friends/family is all but a dead zone for nursing work so left kinda rolling the dice on a new spot-might have a odd friend or two but otherwise going in with no connections.

How do you even start to try & decide where to move? Was looking at Halifax/Calgary but simply no idea where to start...

(Canada only-hurray for regionally locked licence required professions)

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Not sure where to go-how to go about deciding where to move in the fall. A odd & super broad question but basically I need to try & wrap my head around where apply for work & move in the near future and simply have next to no idea how to go about it.

I currently am a 2 year grad working in LTC(level 3/4 ~45 patients) with some higher end nursing care(IV's/Trachs/packings/etc), with me working in a potion as charge nurse. Great experience in some ways, though a little fearful of the jump i'll have jumping back to acute care. Moving more so just due to basically due to my entire social circle in this town moving in the next few months...

The only city where I have a good number friends/family that I would have interest in is a complete dead area for nursing jobs for past year. As a single 27 year guy, I have nothing really tieing me down or pushing or attempt to move to any one real city.

So far just planning on putting in a intending to licence in a few provinces with looking at Calgary/Halifax

But basically no idea where to try and find work/where to look to moving.

Any general life advice? Sorry for this random line of questions but just lost at where to go from here.

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Anything good for nurses in Windsor? I know many nurses that then work to Detroit, if you want hospital experience you could find it .

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Before you move I would say are you looking to stay in Canada or interested in moving to the US? If staying in Canada this may benefit from moving to the Canadian forum.

Halifax like most of NS is going through a lot of changes and jobs maybe advertised but very hard to get and with over 90% of nurses working in Halifax hospitals voting to strike the outlook probably isn't good

Halifax-area nurses vote 90 per cent in favour of strike action | CTV Atlantic News

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

I don't know much about Canadian cities -- although Vancouver has some of the best Chinese food I've ever eaten and Victoria is lovely -- but I have moved a few times. I started out by looking at a map and choosing cities near the ocean, although you might prefer a city near the mountains or a forest or a Great Lake . . . . Then I read about the city -- I found out about the sports teams, theatre, music, restaurants, tourist attractions, neighborhoods. I ordered the city's newspaper, but you don't have to do that anymore. You can read their paper online. When we moved the last time, we chose between three cities in the same general area based on the politics. (DH refused to live in a Republican town!)

Moving to a new city is an exciting time! I hope you enjoy it!

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