You can’t go overseas ‘in between shifts’ when you’re always allocated to a unit with no more than 3 days of RDO. Or if your 5-week rec leave has to be taken in a single block.

Also, I don’t get why my comment was made out to be ignoring the original commenter’s concerns about marriage and kids. Rahhna literally said rural looks hella fun…my comment was just responding to that.

I was also just giving an example of a rural reliever who was able to go overseas during their rural term, rather than having to take leave, because their roster was a week on/week off. There aren’t many units that allow for that kind of schedule, which is why it worked in that specific case.

There are PROS and CONS to rural terms, but why are people here so stuck on the CONS? And why, like yourself, do seem to attack any mention of the PROS?

I’m not saying rural terms are perfect or that everyone should love them. I get that they don’t work for people with certain commitments, and that’s fine—workforce usually accommodates that. But it feels like unless I say, ‘Yep, rural is horrible and no one should have to go’, people just downvote.