What would you do?

I'm about to graduate from UG, looking to de RE Development, and got an offer for $85k in NYC and $55k in San Diego.

Having grown up on the west coast, all my connections are here, and I prefer having constant sunlight and nature access. However it's pretty hard to turn down $85k to take $55k.

I know I want to end up back on the west coast. But I'm thinking take the money, work for 2-3 years there, then leverage it for a better position back west. Is this something I can rely on being easy to do?

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It is, I think it's because I don't have much internship experience/smaller firm. I'd be doing more a mix of entitlement stuff and running some numbers than being a pure analyst

 
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