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Thanks for the reply.

This is the thing, the remote environment would be entirely under my control and I think the work-life balance would be fine.

The non-remote job would be more challenging work, probably a bit more corporate & rigid, but have a killer team to work with and learn from.

I'm with you on the "learning by replacingn legacy stuff with newer stuff" ... that train is already in motion and there's certainly a lot you can learn by doing that properly.

Thanks for the thoughts, I'll add them to the melting pot.