<prompt> Human: I am currently 24 year old male that make 50k at my government job, which isnt a lot but you get a pension for retirement and lifetime health care if you work for the government for at least 20 years. Also Im up for a promotion in about 6 months or so and can start making around 57k. I recently got a job offer in another city that my significant other lives in. It would be at a start up and they are offering me somewhere from 58k-65k. However this will be in the Silicon Valley where the living cost is more expensive than my current city. What should I consider if I take this offer? I would like to be closer to my significant other we currently live two hours away from each other, however I would be leaving my super stable job for a more unstable one since start ups have a higher chance of failing than not. Edit: I forgot to include that I have a pretty good relationship with my current job. If I were to leave and come back it would not be such an issue. Id be living at my significant others house with their parents so I dont really have to pay much in rent. However that is obviously not permanent and I would eventually have to look into getting my own housing. The biggest problem is that my significant other is not really opened to moving to the city I live in due to their career choices. Government jobs are mostly only available in my current city. However the biggest con with my current job is that I dont really learn much here and what I do learn is not really transferable anywhere else.  <response>: No. Almost all new businesses fail in the first 3-5 years. 