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Seems to me like that most of the elements are in place - city you want to be in, work you can do, significant pay upgrade, and crucially, a positive relationship with your direct manager. If you're young in your life (as well career) the truth is you can afford a greater degree of risk - worst case scenario here is that you get bored in 6-12 months and then maybe look again; best case scenario might actually be the same thing.

I'd take the job

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Thanks!

Yeah I feel like taking the job would be a good move, but since you mentioned risk I wanna ask.

Wouldn’t not taking the job be the risk taker option? The current offer I know is good and most of what I want. Or I could turn it down and continue applying (rolling the dice) on getting an even better job offer in the next month or so?

good evidence to suggest that job moves are generally very low risk if you have a set of marketable skills. If you are an engineer, this is still certainly the case - so yes, there is a risk but a recoverable one (i.e doesn't work out, leave in 3 months, find another etc). What we can say for sure though, is that there is certain risk in staying too long with an employer, at least in terms of compensation, this is the surest way to have the slowest ascent up the comp ladder

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