but when the kids are real young they don't know any difference.
This is rubbish. I started working away and living away during the week when my son was 8 months old. Come saturday morning, which was the first time I would see him, he ran away from me because he didn't know who I was.
It was heart breaking.
As he grew older, he could remember me, but it was pretty clear on the one full day I was at home that I was only a bit-part player in home life and that was completely shit.
However, in this case, take the dream job unless you're spectacularly attached to the area in which you live.
