Horizon Homestead

I was recently offered a new job – one I hadn’t been expecting to be offered, and definitely not this soon. It’s interstate, in a different city and with a different organisation, and a promotion to boot, with my own team to manage, so big changes all around!

I’ve sat down and run the pros and cons, and in reality it comes down to two different things depending on how I view it. Objectively – it’s finances. Emotionally – it’s stability, familiarity and security. I’ve been in my current home for years now, and have established routines, a solid veggie garden, and friends close by. If I take this job, I’m leaving all of that, setting up a new home in a new city where I don’t really know anyone.

If I stay, I’m going nowhere new financially, which in this economy, isn’t likely to do me any favours in the long run.

Both the city I’m in and my new one have all the services you need and want – decent shopping, medical, outdoor spaces, etc. If my family planning works out, they both have good childcare and schools close to work for me.

I think my main hesitance is that for the first time in my life, I created stability – I stayed in the same city and even the same house, for years, and my friends are around. I’d never had that before, and my heart clenches a little at shifting away from that. On the flipside, I know I can create that stability again, if I choose to move with this new job. And if I stay here, I know I’ll wonder if I’m doing the right thing.

Have you ever taken a leap like this? How did you decide, and was it easy or hard?