&gt; I&#x27;d love to go out to random-rural-county and buy 20 acres of land and a school and turn it into a huge home, but then I&#x27;d be hours away from where I need to go to make the money to do that.<p>Being a rural doctor is a sweet gig. They get paid as much or more than doctors in urban areas, so you can be making $300k in the middle of nowhere, Iowa.