New job?

Sorry, this is gonna be long! Such a hard decision so looking for insight from the outside!

So my husband and I went to tour a place he has applied at. It’s a job he would enjoy (his current job sucks on meant levels), and everyone who hears about it says he will be amazing at it.

They said in the beginning that onsite living would be an option. Today they said that it’s basically mandatory. We couldn’t see inside the house, but the outside looked nice, and it has the same amount of beds/baths we have now.

Cons:

1. We just moved to a new rent house 2 months ago and signed a year lease. The landlord let us know he was really taking a chance on us because our rent from the previous place was almost doubling, and he’s had his last 3 tenants walk out on him and break their lease. So I would feel extremely bad doing the same thing. Obviously we would let him know we’re leaving, but still. We’ve also fixed the place up (painting, landscaping), so I’m bummed to leave that too. We would also lose our deposit as consequence of breaking the lease. We would also be charged rent until the place is rented again, but the new job said they would cover that.

2. The new job is down in a canyon on winding roads. I am extremely scared of heights so driving on roads like that gives me intense anxiety. We get bad snow/ice in the winter which i am also terrified of. Plus my job would now be about 30 miles away. There are no closer job opportunities. The place we would live is isolated. We have considered me quitting but I couldn’t do that for at least a couple of months due to some things happening at my job that I am in charge of.

3. The nearest town with any type of convenient store, grocery store, gas station, schools, etc is 30 miles away.

4. Today we got no cell service while out there, meaning we would have to switch phone companies, which would be added expense.

5. There is no storage at the new place. Right now we have a 8x10 storage unit that we use every bit of. It is at a storage facility, so taking it is not an option.

6. We would have to pack and move again. Moving sucks! And it would be further this time, which means we’d have to rent and drive a uhaul on the narrow winding roads.

7. The yard is not fenced, so I would feel like we had any privacy or boundaries for our future children to play outside.

8. Summer would be my husband’s busiest time, so we could not take summer vacations. We are very involved with our church youth group and typically take 2) 4 day trips with them each summer.

9. We would have to stop housesitting/pet sitting for several families we currently do that for.

10. I would have to stop babysitting for the family I have babysat for for over 5 years.

11. Husband wouldn’t have set hours. It’s basically an on-call situation on weekends and plus being in the office or working outdoor activities during the day.

12. Trips to the grocery store would have to be very well planned as we can’t just run to the store to get things we don’t have. We currently go to the store about 3 times a week.

13. My mom just moved to our current town, and now we’d be leaving her.

14. Our church would be about a 40 minute drive from where we’d live. We are very dedicated to our church.

Pros:

1. Housing is provided. We wouldn’t have to pay rent.

2. It could be a time to put some money into our savings.

3. Husband wouldn’t have to drive to work.

4. He would have holidays off. (He doesn’t now).

5. I think he would be much happier than he is with his current job.

Other info:

- We don’t yet know the pay of the job. That will be discussed Monday. We have a goal salary that he would like, but after figuring taxes and stuff he still wouldn’t be bringing home that much more than he is now because it pushes us into a higher tax bracket.

- I want him to be happy, but I have been crying for the past 2 hours thinking of Salk the changes we’d be making.

- He isn’t sure what he wants. He goes back and forth.

Please vote on what you would do. Obviously we aren’t basing a life decision on this poll. But I wanted a concensus of what others may do.