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I have to make a pretty tough decision. I’m hoping y’all can help me make a more informed one. I’m using a throw-away, because people at my work know my username.

The long and short of it is I live in Austin Texas, and was offered a pretty great job in California. Two years ago my girlfriend and I moved down here from the Dallas area. The move was pretty easy for her, because she grew up in Austin, but for me, it was rough. Not only did I not know anyone, and was away from home for the first time, but things started falling apart quickly. The job I took that moved us down here ended up being awful, which was incredibly demoralizing. I also had to have hernia surgery 3 months after moving do

Hey gang,

Super sorry if this is the wrong subreddit! I was torn between this and one of the general advice subreddits. If I'm in the wrong place please redirect me!

I have to make a pretty tough decision. Hopefully y’all can help me make a better informed one. I’m using a throw-away, because I’m going to list my salary numbers, and people at work know my username.

Here’s the long background, tl;dr at the end!

I’m 27, and live in Austin Texas. I got a lot of the way through college, but didn’t graduate (I was offered a job, so I opted to take that instead). I have about 4-years experience in my current field, and about 7 years doing IT in general. I work as a DevOps Engineer, mainly doin