Time Vs Money?

foreversomeday

I think it depends - if you earn barely enough money to survive, money would be the more important factor. If you can still be comfortable, time all the way.

ailuro2

Go for the one 7 miles away. Your kids will only be young once, plenty time to work more hours when they are grown up.

paddy's_mum

I truly don't want to be jumping to conclusions and mean no offense whatever here but I wonder how he could have racked up £45k of debt if he's been on reasonably good money.

Might it be the case that as a family, even if he took the lower paid job, you would not be willing or able to cut back enough to survive, with happiness, on the lower income?

If the debt is a one-off and you both think you'd be much happier getting rid of it, would it work going for say two years with the higher earnings but making sure that you save every last halfpenny to kill the outstanding debt stone dead and then make the final decision as to which is the higher priority - career or loved ones?

What I can tell you is that we happily scrape by, never miss a chance to save a shilling, but have loads of time together to just be companions and do the things that we like to do. We're not undernourished or in any way deprived. To us, using windfall apples instead of going to Tesco and buying Finest is a conscious decision for the health of our marriage. Good luck in whatever you decide to do.