High paying warm weather areas

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I'm originally from a pretty snowy area so I've been looking forward to going somewhere warm for the winter. My first 2 assignments were in NYC and Burlington, VT and have been pretty well paying. I'm getting offers now for Tennessee, Texas, and Arizona but they are all so much lower than my 1st two offers. One in Nashville had a take home of less than $1000/week. I want a warm winter but am not exactly interested in giving up about $2000 per month. Does anyone know of warm weather areas that pay well?

Some of the other comments were about getting housing and questions about NY, it's only a high paying warm weather area in the summer for sure. I hope those commenters know that or they will be surprised.

Paco-RN, I didn't mean to imply that 100% of people behave that way. Although as a majority the blunt, demanding, rude and disrespectful behaviors I have noticed in this region in the patient population are undeniable. This by far isn't just a couple people having a bad day it's a repeated behavior by many patients and families. When I have brought this unusual behavior up to staff members THEY tell me that it is due to the region we are in and it's probably the rudest and most demanding patient population in the US. I've asked probably 10 different staff members in different areas of the hospital and always got the same response. They recommend I don't act so nice, tone down courtesy and manners and bluntly bark out orders and directions to patients.

Now as for people I've met in the region outside the Hospital everyone has been polite and kind. Complete different behavior from patients I have been around. Perhaps it's a control issue. Perhaps being sick and having someone in charge of when they eat, sleep, get stuck by needles, may have visitors, etc brings out an aggressive personality. I really haven't done a scientific study on it but all I know is what I've experienced over and over and what long term people from this area say.

Of course you will find rude people everywhere, you just hope they don't become the norm.

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Specializes in ICU.

Well I found a high paying warm weather area. Seton Medical Center in downtown Austin, Texas just gave me a nice quote for a winter assignment. Their ICU is high acuity as they're the hospital that other hospitals send their patients who are too sick to. I know Texas isn't held in the highest regard on this forum but we'll see.

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What's wrong with Texas? I did an assignment in Fort Worth 2/14-5/14. Not the highest paying. Not too bad.

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Specializes in ICU.

It's nice to hear someone say something positive. I posted a little while back about Austin and was told there is a bad culture in TX with treating nurses poorly and a blacklist between hospitals. We'll see how it goes.

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I have no doubt that there are lots of good assignments in Texas. And lots of good assignments at HCA hospitals. But the risk/reward odds are unfavorable so I don't understand the point when, say San Diego is available. Personally, I'd like to see travelers boycott Texas until the risk is compensated by high bill rates.

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