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I am potentially moving to Miami or Houston (depends on BF PhD acceptance)

I've been doing locums for 2.5 years and lots of places are desperate for NPs/midlevels. I applied to ~40 jobs in Miami, here briefly and had 2 interviews. Seems similar to CO with a very tight market, people want to live where its beautiful I guess!;o)

Anyways, Texas seems to usually have a lot of good paying jobs.

I've been making good money doing locums and hope I don't have to take a big pay cut to accept a perm job.

Ideally I would LOVE to find a position in an ER/fast track/UC. But ER would be my favorite. Or even a Peds ER.

Anybody have any info, have personally worked in either of these areas?

I think I have a realistic fear that to move to Miami I will have to take what I can get and probably a pay cut in a high cost of living area.

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I have lived in both places- Miami and Texas- though a I live few hours from Houston -good job market there, affordable living -I often receive offers from recruiters there looking for NP's. -Miami very affordable living -no state sales tax, home taxes very low (100K house taxes in Houston = $350K home in Miami taxes +/-), Miami= Home prices very affordable right now, job market not so hot...-pretty poor for NP's. Many folks lost their jobs and lost their benefits...

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Specializes in family, internal, pediatric.

We moved my son to Hollywood, FL for school (8/2010). A decent 1 bedroom apartment in a nice area was >$850, this included water only. He is in a nice complex for $985 includes cable, water, internet.

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looks like most likely we will choose houston, if everything works out.

Not sure how you figure Miami "very affordable" though. All my research shows its in the top 10 most expensive places to live in the US. I also lived in Miami for 1 year for school and everything from groceries, to gas, to housing was WAY more expensive then midwest. I've also lived in Texas and rented a whole brick super nice house only 5 years old for myself and only paid $800/mo rent.

And you may pay less on taxes for a house in Miami, but does that matter if you save 200k on the house? Texas also doesn't have any state tax either.

My main question is about anybody who is or has worked as a NP in those areas?

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