[jyl]

That is a tough call. Maybe travel 1-2 weeks/mth defined as leave Monday am and back by Thursday pm, and more time off when you're not traveling, and the traveling stops for sure by a certain date, and the higher pay stays.

Your kids will need child care, your wife will need help, she might not be able to keep working PT, all sorts of financial as well as personal and family costs involved.

Examples of untenable and tenable:

- When I moved to Portland, I came up and lived in a corporate apartment for four months while the family was in the Bay Area. I saw them about every two weeks. My kids were the same age as yours. That was pretty damn hard on my wife, and she wasn't working either. Untenable.

- On the other hand, one of my friends in Portland is commuting to his job in the Bay Area. It started as a short term contract thing but they want to make it long term. He spends about 3 days/wk in San Jose. The family has adapted fine. It helps that his kids are older (15 and 13?) and when he's home, he can concentrate on them - he doesn't have to work (besides phone calls etc). Tenable.