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What would you do - engine failure on climb

Hello!

SLF question here out of curiosity: say you have an engine non catastrophic failure while climbing through 3000 ft or so out of a small not so travelled airport. Departure field a few miles behind and a large airport some 50 miles ahead. Departure field with shorter runway, low category emergency services etc. Large airport with long runways, full emergency services plus maintenance facilities. Would you turn to the departure field or fly on one engine to the larger one? And how would you get to that decision?
Would it matter if departure field is somewhere on a vast plain vs between the mountains? (say Innsbruck with both Salzburg and Munich close by?)
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