Trying to make a decision, if y'all had any advice I'd appreciate it

My friend/old roommate who just got a Google job is moving to Austin next week and offered to split a 2/2 if I joined him there. Got super mixed feelings about it. Have to decide, like, immediately.

Context is: living with my parents in boring Florida suburbs for $0/mo rent. Working remote. There's still like 2 people I know from high school still around. Really not happy with my life but in ways that are hard (for me at least) to pin to any specific thing that should be different.

Pros:

- Austin is a cool place that has things to do

- Friend is a cool guy

- Maybe a change of scenery will happen to help

Cons:

- Expensive. Goes from saving ~90% of my paycheck to maybe 20%. Don't have any particular thing to be saving towards tho. House maybe? idk -_-

- Feels pointless to move from a Red state to another Red state.

- Feels pointless to move anywhere in America

- Not excited about the cool stuff in Austin but that will hopefully change once there

- Need a new job, which may or may not be Remote or in Austin

- If I was to open a Boardgame Cafe it probably wouldn't be in Austin

So that's basically it. Do I upset my life at the drop of a hat now that there's a reason to be in Austin? Gotta figure this one out ASAP

Other life updates:

Have the weirdest feelings about my friend's Google job. On one hand, I'm very happy for him, he clearly deserves it and this has been his dream job. On the other hand, I hate Google passionately and kinda always have. Hell, I was as that annoying guy shilling for Firefox back in high school and also in college and also right now (you gotta use Firefox!!). My other roommate just started at Amazon, another company I deeply hate. And I'm happy for them and wow they pay well and objectively what they're doing probably isn't any worse for the world than I'm doing. And logically, I probably should be working there too. But so much of my identity is tied up in hating those companies that seeing two of by besties being excited to work there is just gut wrenching.

& a sincere thank you to everyone who offered advice last week! Been having a blast with QGIS fiddling with everything. The simple fact that OpenStreetMaps exists is inspiring. So far got points for every Makerspace MakeCo knows about, every existing boardgame cafe, and a random pile of Census data. Tons to do here and being able to just pan and zoom and fiddle with colors is incredibly cute. Got the trial for LivePlan and have been having fun fiddling with that too. Then read a bunch of articles about how most coffee shops are opened by amateurs who hate office life and 90% of them fail in the first year, which was less fun.

<3