NY, LA or SF?

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Hello nurses across the country! I still have a ways to go before finishing school, but I'm a planner/dreamer and would like the input of those with experience. After I finish, I plan on moving to NYC, LA or San Francisco; all three are cities that I love and what it boils down to is which is the best for a new nurse. Opinions, experiences and advice are all welcome.

New nurses will find it rough in The City, but of course I'm going to say NY, because we rule.

You may be able to work on LI, but it's not The City.

Specializes in NICU.

As long as you get into a good hospital with a good new grad program, it doesn't matter where you are geographically. You'd do well to have a backup plan though, as all of these cities are highly desirable and therefore extremely competitive to land a job in.

Hello nurses across the country! I still have a ways to go before finishing school, but I'm a planner/dreamer and would like the input of those with experience. After I finish, I plan on moving to NYC, LA or San Francisco; all three are cities that I love and what it boils down to is which is the best for a new nurse. Opinions, experiences and advice are all welcome.

Those are probably three of the worst (most difficult) places for a new grad to find work. Get some experience where you're at, first.

I read that California pays the best (obviously because of high cost of living), but it's very difficult for new grads to find jobs because of hospitals wanting only experienced ones even when they have a high demand for nurses. They apparently have some of the lowest amounts of nurses per capita. Not exactly sure if it's because the hospitals are really busy + strained by huge population and don't have time to train new grads or they don't have the money to pay. You could try NYC, but it looks like they have the lowest annual salary per year adjusted for cost of living. Not sure about the difficulty of getting a job, but I would imagine NYC with its high population would be pretty hard too. I would look elsewhere or like others were saying, get some experience first so you have a better chance.

...as all of these cities are highly desirable and therefore extremely competitive to land a job in.

No thanks, keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

No thanks, keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

Old school, thanks Zsa Zsa!

Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.
No thanks, keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

"Green acres is tha' place to be...."

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