I worked at Gifford before moving on to FAHC. The one consideration that must be looked at is being a new grad. You may want to work in a larger facility to start with. Summers at Gifford were torture. The hospital census drops to less than a half dozen patients, so you aren't doing yourself any favors getting experience. like any other hospital the people you work with are not always the the strongest skilled people(some nurses are better than others) and working in a small hospital leaves you with fewer good resource people to rely on if you happen to be working with weaker staff. I am a firm believer that that it is harder to work in a small hospital than a large facility(I have worked in hospitals as small as Gifford's 25 beds to 1100 bed trauma centers and the smaller hospitals were always harder to work at). In large facilities you always have resource people around while in a small hospital you need to be more independent.
Outside of the Barre/Montpelier area, central Vermont can be a tough place to live if you don't do outdoor activities. It is more affordable to live there, but don't expect to go out and have a night on the town. I own a property in Brookfield(town north of Randolph) and it's a nice place to raise kids, but it's an isolated part of the state. We would say that the sidewalks in Randolph rolled up at 5pm.
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