Houston and Austin Hospitals: It's almost that time!

I'm midway through my next-to-last semester in NS, and am planning to start applying for residencies and internships. My wife and I are going to be relocating when we're done here (her job contract and my school), and we've narrowed it down to either Austin, Houston, or, if necessary due to the health of my parents, rural East Texas (near Tyler).

I'm very familiar with Tyler, but I'm looking for opinions, thoughts, warnings, accolades, what have you, on the various hospitals in Houston and Austin.

My wife is a long-time RN, with about 20 years or so in the ER as well as current experience as a trauma coordinator and manager. I hope to land a position in either PICU/NICU/or general peds floor.

We're both 40+, and both Houston and Austin have things in their favor.

Houston: We're fanatics over Astros baseball, and it'd rock to be able to get season tickets and go to the game all the time. We like the culture and food in Houston, and we like being near Galveston, since we're frequent cruisers.

Austin: The grandkids are in San Antonio, so we'd be reasonably close to them, but not so close that we'd be toooo convenient. Austin is a clean, nice, pretty city, away from Hurricanes. There are many nice small cities around there that we'd like, including Round Rock, home of the Astros AAA minor league team.

I've heard from the recruiter from Austin's Seton Hospital System already. I have sent emails and webforms to several of the ones in Houston, with no response so far.


So, who can give me some guidance? Peds and the N/Picu for me, hopefully, plus the likelihood of my wife finding a job that doesn't lose her too much salary compared to what she makes now would be great.

Thanks!