[epistasis]

Can you distinguish option and needing to choose here? Having an option would necessarily cause a need to choose.

[goykasi]

I can confidently say yes. Choosing between working in two different countries separated by an entire ocean is an option. Moving to a different state is expensive for many, but moving to another continent is only afforded to a privileged minority.

[freetime2]

Why is it relevant, though?

[epistasis]

That is my underlying question, by trying to find out what the difference is in the posters mind.