Financial stability is obviously something that is high on your list of priorities, otherwise you’d be carying too much debt right now to make any decisions other than to carry on. The fact that you have saved the $200k while living here says a lot about your priorities in life.

A government job in an area with reasonable living costs is a pretty safe and secure way to sit out an economic recession. Only a fraction of the attorneys I know do substantially better economically than the pay+benefits package you are describing, and those that do have to work long and hard to do it. That’s fine if they love what they’re doing or if they love the money, but by then we’re talking about different priorities.

As you have apparently figured out by now it isn’t how much money you make that counts, but how much you spend that determines your economic well-being.

You should go to law school if you have that burning desire to do it and, to a lesser degree, if your self-image revolves primarily around your occupation. Other than that, you might want to give more weight to the other aspects of your life.