Should Boyfriend Move For Me?

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I live over in England and just got into a doctoral program over there — which means I'll be there another 4 years (minimum). My boyfriend lives on the West Coast, so generally we're 8 time zones and a 10 hour plane flight away from each other. He just recently switched careers — well has undergone the training for it. And he's been holding off finding a job over here because he wanted to see if I got into the program or not.

Now that I'm in, he's weighing the possibilities of staying in the US to get a year of experience versus moving over right away and getting a job there. (He'd be unable to pursue his new career there right away...just because of the differences in training, etc). Chances are we'd stick around in Europe a bit longer than my degree...

My question: is it too much to expect him to give up his "dream" career for me? I feel slightly guilty that he'd be doing this for me. He's not the type that would ever use this against me in any way, shape, or form — it's just a personal thing. Or, should I be super flattered and just go with it?? He'd be able to get a job no problem in what he was doing before, it's just not what he really wants to do...

We've known each other for 6+ years but have only been officially dating for 8 months (which I realize is still the honeymoon phase — but we always say that we started dating at date 30).

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