polychrome_pen | Choices

So I'm hoping you all can weigh in a bit on a problem I'm facing.

Next Monday - the 26th - we choose our sites for Rotations. We will be in these areas for nine months, moving between six different pharmacy practice settings.

Until recently, this wasn't even a decision that I felt needed deciding - it was already practically a done deal that I wanted to go to Loma Linda. But recently, my friends have been trying to sway me to Sacramento.

Here's a bit about each region for you non-California people. :)

Loma Linda
- Smack in the middle of southern California and eight hours away, this regions represents my first true chance to get away from the area I live now. I have several old friends who live down here, as well as the chance at very affordable housing if I live with some friends of my Mom (who went to college down there).
- Also, I like that there's a large Adventist population. And it doesn't hurt that I'd be really close to Disneyland.
- But in a bit way I'm scared to death of being so far away from everything.

Sacramento
- This region is only about an hour's drive north from where I live, and although I wouldn't really be that far away it would still be a very different experience. Housing becomes trickier in this situation, though - I don't know where I would live.
- It would be nice to still be able to come home if I really wanted to. I'm not sure how homesick I might get. Heh.
- Also, the friends I've made in this program are mostly wanting to go there. And they want me to come with them. This is kind of a new concept for me.

I'm very undecided about this still, and probably won't really decide until I pick on Monday. But I would value some outside opinions.