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Split road...

As I am writing this my mind is being scrambled...I have been in Edinburgh now for nearly two years after leaving my home town. Today my folks came to the city and visited me at work and had a small discussion with me...

It turns out that the tenants that was renting my folks restaurant  can no longer run the business and is packing it in, so my folks wants to know if I'd be interested in going back...

Problem is this...I am now very much settled in the capital city...I cannot just abandon my position here at my current work (which is also family business)...yet I cannot turn my back on my parents...

If I remain, I shall continue to enjoy what the city can offer and probably be quite stable career wise and financially in about 5 years.

If I choose to go back...there is ONE HELL of a mess that must be cleaned up after those tenants...let alone having the gas and electricity lines checked for faults...carpets may need to be ripped out and relayed (Honestly...cleaning the darn thing won't get it back to what it was)...and it will pretty much stump my financial capabilities for a few years...and the town is a dump with no real economical power to even sustain itself...

Boy oh boy do I have a catch 22 situation...

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