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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like a big leap of faith. Pay is similar to your current government job and partner track is possible?

Have you run the numbers? Boston is expensive. Flights, rent, ubers, eating out, and taxes. Property too (once you want to buy there). Check the income tax liability.

I wouldn’t do this unless it was a huge income jump. Are you just trying to avoid your family?[/quote]

Because sometimes you have to take a step back to take a step forward.

This is an opportunity to escape the DC job market and more forward professionally. Staying in DC in a federal job is surviving. OP will come to regret it if he or she turns this down.

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OP here and this is sort of what I’m thinking. I’m definitely not trying to avoid my family. Living apart from them is the major con to this situation. But I carry the health benefits for the family and my income is larger than DH, so I need a job and this is a pretty good one that (if I’m successful) will definitely open doors. It also may be best for my family in the long run because grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins are ALL there or nearby in NH. We are completely without family here in the DMV and have never made the kind of “like family” friends we have in Boston. We do love our house though. And moving will be hard on our daughter, even after graduation. It’s a very hard decision, but I’m going to ask them if maybe they’ll let me do 2 weeks in office 2 weeks remote. That feels like it would be a lot more manageable, I don’t think I can travel every week.[/quote]

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