be management? 

Are you excited about the prospects of the new job?

Then go! Especially if the ocean calls to you. I am looking at the Puget Sound from my window now, and I don't ever want to give that up.

It has now been 4 years since I dragged my Wife away from her family in Utah. It was hard to get her to leave the family and culture she knew. But today, there is nothing I could do to convince her to return to Utah. Her career has exploded upward and she loves where we live. I already owned a firm with offices in Utah and where we moved, no big career change for me. 

And this, "I have a deep seeded fear of passive aggressive hostility towards Mormons. Yes, that developed when I grew up in CA". Don't ever let that stop you. If you are solid in your faith, it will never affect you. You are currently living around non-Mormons in Utah. They are viewed as more peculiar in the Utah society than you are viewed in CA.