the clash

‘Do I stay or do I go?’ Do I stay in Allentown, or do I move to the [not so] Great White North, [aka, Buffalo,] to continue my career with the ‘same’ employer I had for almost 19 years. Considering my current living standard, my current level of debt, my current level of comfort with my employer, and my current level of comfort with my overall life, that is not that easy of a decision. Stay where I am, and I could lose touch with the company I helped steer to the level they are. Move, and I could find myself without a job and without enough capital to relocate to find another that will hire someone born in the 1960s. What is worse is that my boss says, ‘sit on it until I return from Palm Springs.’ If it were an absolute answer, one way or another, that would be one thing. My job, my ‘career’, is about all I have that is reasonably solid. It is not solid enough at this stage for me to make a significant move, in this economy, to an area where my living costs and taxes will increase, in which I can see them increasing blindly. [sic] It is not an opportunity I wish to pass, considering that I have little if any life in Allentown. I am just not sure if Buffalo is the place where I want to age to retirement. this is such a tough call.