Take Offer or Risk Exploring

Currently coming up on a couple years in my role at my current firm (NYC) and don't think prospects for VP are great (staffing, performance, etc.) and have not gotten great clarity on potential / timing when asking.

Have an offer (outside NYC). Ideally would find role in NYC, but current recruiting prospects feel slimmer than not and could lead to potential path of recruiting without a job starting later in summer if pushed out. 

Question: is it worth taking offer for career progress and potentially explore NYC roles in future, or take the "leap of faith" that there will be opportunity to land a role in NYC given (i) I have gotten an offer before, (ii) its NYC so there are more roles than other cities.

Curios on pros / cons considerations.

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Stability is definitely a positive. The transition from one location to another is unstable itself but so is the unknown. Was curious if anyone has had experience with taking a role in one geography to pursue the next career step, but balancing the option to return to original geography / impact to future opps if current opp didn't work and you have to "get back" to the geography you started in vs just bridging the gap and staying in the geography vs moving and explaining a brief time period break if necessary.

 

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