<prompt> Human: I was hired 8 months ago for a job in neurosurgery that does paid salary training at 40kyear with some overtime and on-call pay. I passed my certification last week that triggers my 2 year contract and within a week they told me they need someone to relocate to a very, VERY rural city in a Midwestern state. They sprung this on me jusy before my first shift back from vacation at 6am and made it sound like I had no choice Im in contract, remember. It comes with a 10k raise and a 3500 moving allowance. I more-or-less said Id do it seeing as I didnt think I had an option.The rub is, I really dont want to move. I was hired on the pretense that theyd move me to my home town, the capital of my state, once I passed my certification. Then when that contract fell through, I was told I could stay in the medium-sized city I was temporarily living in for my training. Then they sprung this on me. Its worth a 10k raise for me to not move. Its also worth 15-17k for me to move.How should I approach this? I work in operating rooms so I dont actually see my boss face-to-face often he works in surgery as well.Some background, I have 20k in student loan debt and maybe 3k remaining in credit card debt. I have a 16k car loan mistake that I cant easily reverse. I want to pay off my debt and save up some money to support myself when to go to med school.Assistant: its short term and its more money? i mean you know you arent gonna STAY there, and if its that much more money is it that bad?my cousin is a cardiologist and was in san francisco doing his training, he took his first job in wisconsin because it was 200k higher than any other offer. he stayed there three years then moved out to san diego where im at. he technically took a pay cut but not much since he has experience at this point.point being, he did not want to leave san francisco, but did it knowing he wasnt going to stay and for better pay. same thing may happen to you once you graduate med school.Human: I suppose thats a good outlook. Being from wisconsin, I understand the reference. The reason Im not excited about this move is not because of weather orminor lifestyle changes. Its just a dead town of like 30,000 people with heavy crime, two restaurants, a hospital, and a walmart. Thats a drastic change from what Im used to. I suppose it will give me more time to prep for med school. I was just concerned that knowing it was somewhat optional, I could have asked for more money.Assistant: Wheres the next biggest city? I live in a smaller town in the southeast but a big city with every type of store, entertainment, business, etc., is 40 miles away. Human: Im a little mellowdramatic edit: its spelled melodramatic in the sense that I want to live in a top 20 metro area. The next biggest city would be Dayton, about an hour away. Columbus is next at roughly 1.5 hours.Assistant: Just FYI its melodramatic :Human: What if Im both mellow and dramatic? Haha thanks ;  <response>: Please dont dig into my brain P 