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Will the additional money truly impact your life in any measurable way? If it's just going to cause your investment account to grow a bit faster, unless you're

Will the additional money truly impact your life in any measurable way? If it's just going to cause your investment account to grow a bit faster, unless you're planning on FIRE, you might as well strike that consideration from your decision making and compare the life/work balance you have versus the prospect of interesting work. The former could change if you stay but it sounds like you're pretty comfortable that it won't. The latter is by no means guaranteed. Really seems to come down to just how much is the boredom at Microsoft eating you up. If it's crushing your soul, taking some risk might be justified.

locusofself 5y ago
As far as the money, it's hard to say, but I'm not a homeowner right now and houses have increased in value by 45% in my area in the last year, I'm not joking. I'm renting a house that was 1.2 million and is now 1.95 million, in two years. So higher comp is definitely a partial motivation to move, along with the boredom. But I don't want a ton more stress either, and my wife doesn't want to move to LCOL area really. So I'm having a really hard time with the decision.
- blinded 5y ago
  Wow I just looked at Redfin for the area. What you pay vs what you get is astonishing. Best of luck either way you chose. Seems like AWS work would be "cooler" and might provider newer things to work on and more mobility.
  - locusofself 5y ago
    The worst part about it for me is I made the mistake of selling my house in Spokane, WA (where my family is) to rent again for a while to start at Microsoft. I had a $1600/mortgage. Kicking myself for selling that house, which has also gone up more than 50% in just over two years.
    - blinded 5y ago
      Ya, I'm never selling, Image if you rented that sucker out.