I'm myopic, 47 years old, -5.5 in each eye, and was a TV cameraman: optics is something I know about, and (d'uh) my eyes are important to me.
After 15 years with contact lenses, I looked into laser eye surgery some 7 years ago, and realised that the opticians checking me out for surgery all wore glasses.
More recently, I raised the subject with my optician - though I now accept I need reading glasses for close work - and he said that the budget deals for laser surgery are not good for patients with medium/high dioptre problems (like mine) or for big pupils (like mine - I always had hassles trying to find contact lenses whose optical area completely covered my pupils when driving in the dark, for example). He suggested I'd need to be looking at around £2000 per eye for corrective surgery, in order to avoid blurriness at night, and that made it a non-starter.
I'll stick with glasses.
Easier to correct if things don't work out well.
Andy