Not sure if this goes here or not.

We are in the US. After living 8 years in a state we called home we had to relocate for a new job. 1.5 year at the new state and we are not liking it. I have been looking for a new fully remote job for months but unfortunately have not had luck yet. The new job gave new hopes and I thought it was going to be great and will be going to the office on a daily basis. Even when I can do this the office is empty and the atmosphere ugly. The company is really struggling to bring people back to office. My work cna be done mostly remote, so basically I go to the office 1 or maybe 2 days every 2 weeks, in fact, right now I am outside US for 3 weeks and gave no notice to my team, lead or manager, this to use it as a proof for myself that they don’t care/mind as long as I am online and doing my job. This year I asked my manager for the opportunity to work fully remote with travel as needed and she rejected it on the spot. She went on maternity leave and I talked directly with my director (my managers manager) about the opportunity again, I even gave him a long list of reasons (personal and familiar reasons) to present to his manager since he was supposedly consult it with him. A couple of weeks later we met and he rejected my petition.

Since I have been rejected twice and my family and I are struggling the new city, schools, people, etc and I have no good luck so far finding a new job we have been thinking to move back to our previous city without telling my company, of course weighting the risks, pros and cons and that if they realize I can be fired.

I have to add, my first year with this company I worked fully remote from my previous town and they have a plant in the state so in terms of taxes or legal, so I don’t think that is a problem.

Thank you for reading.