should i stay or should i go now?

OK, all 3 of my readers. Thanks for helping me out with my blog-maintenance issues, now maybe you can help me with self-maintenance. What should I do next?

The Nominees Are:

New York

Pros:

• near my immediate family
• dollar salary
• more independence
• it's New York

Cons:

• oh so wallet-breaking
• weather sucks 50% of the year
• more job competition

Manila

Pros:

• near my Filipino family
• I have more friends here
• higher standard of living for less money
• weather

Cons:

• need a car (& invincible driving skills on top of that!)
  
• very low salaries
• far from my parents
• not really a con, but a minus point for living there now- Manila will always be there to go back to
  

Somewhere else?

Signs, signs, signs?! I need one to point me in my direction.

As much as I could see myself hopping round the world forever & ever Amen, I need reliable work & a closet to store my many many many pairs of shoes in. My return ticket date is looming. I just need to choose a place & the rest of the equation will follow- the apartment, the job, the social life & the routines. I've never wanted to live somewhere & not done it. I just need to make the first decision.

Help? We could vote, I'll announce the results & it'll be just like American Idol. Or something.