As you might remember from my housing follow up post, the nytimes.com article basically said that getting to the listing early is the key to scoring that new condo in big cities. The New York Times’ website has another article (The Danger in the Fine Print) today that speaks to the risks associated with getting [...]
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If you’re like me, being a medical spouse means that you get to be the one to keep your financial health in check. That mostly means taking care of bills, investing, budgeting and doing the taxes. Even if you don’t like doing it, often times our spouse does not have the energy to [...]
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Not much to write about tonight but I wanted to let everyone know about a cool gift. If you haven’t heard of threadless, you’re missing out. They’ve got the best shirts evah!. This one’s perfect for your med student or resident regardless of specialty. My wife has one and all her [...]
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Last week, on the day of the match, my wife and I were having lunch with another couple (she’s a graduating medical student and he’s a dentist in his first year of residency) when, as is customary, they began discussing all that is required of residents and how difficult call is, etc… when it dawned [...]
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As a short follow up to my last post, I found an interesting article on nytimes.com about a couple who had a great experience finding a place to buy AFTER residency. Not the match, I know.  But their experience might be not too far down the line for a lot of us medical spouses going [...]
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Apologies for the down time again this morning. It’s teaching me patience.
As I said in a previous post, my wife and I like to think of ourselves as still young and adventurous. Unfortunately, it comes with a feeling of longing for settling somewhere for a long time and giving up our nomad lifestyle. [...]
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The blog was not accessible for a good part of today (and I’m not sure there’s a guarantee for the rest of it, either) and I missed my opportunity to post. It will happen in the latter part of the day.
As a side note, I suspect that watching movies is a very prevalent [...]
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