Every option has a problem attached. Pick the problem you’d rather have.

Each route comes with its own difficulty built in: the long commute, the lower pay, the people you would have to deal with, the years it takes. No version of this has nothing wrong with it. Searching for the clean option is how people stay still for months, because it does not exist and the search feels productive.

Write each choice with its problem attached, in the same sentence, so you cannot look at one without the other. Then ask which problem you would rather be living with next year. Choosing a difficulty on purpose is easier than discovering one later.