Great move Redfox, do however get a decent pair of bino's. I have a pair of 7x50 which serves me well. Watch out for too high mag on binos- they can be hard to keep steady and you will need a tripod. In my opinion, I would just get standard binos (without getting involved in ones that need a tripod (at this stage anyway, as your undecided what path to take). At the end of the day, regardless of getting a telescope or not, your binos will be highly valued and used. When your out scoping, you will praise them no end to help find things. And praise them even more when you can't be bothered getting out the scope and just want a quick relaxing fix. Most of us with scopes have binos. Even if you give up Astronomy all together, they will still come in handy throughout your life.
With my 7x50 binos, I can see the beautiful Omega Centauri Glob and lots of faint fuzzies all from my suburban yard. Just the other night I was in awe of how exquisite the M7 cluster in Scorpius looked in my binos - like crushed sparkling glass. Search these threads, I'm sure there must be some good info somewhere here on this site on bino buying. There are lots of sites dedicated to binoviewing. Here is one
www.lightandmatter.com/binosky/binosky.html.
Please do your research and get good advice before buying. Remember, your binoculars will be a worthy life time investment that you will never regret. Trust me.
P.S. Perhaps you should start a new thread, "Help Needed Purchasing Good Binoculars".