I don't think it's so much of a false dilemma as it was the OP's inability to find other options. They're posting here to find those options, which you've give

I don't think it's so much of a false dilemma as it was the OP's inability to find other options. They're posting here to find those options, which you've given a bunch of. The trick for the OP now is to not just dismiss them all out of hand. I hear so many people throw advice away on the flimsiest of excuses, when just a little massaging can make them work.