To make a new site or not? (for branch office with small number of people)

We have a main office, with our DC (DC01) and a single site (SiteHO), and we are about to open up a new branch office in another city.  This branch office is connected to the head office via a 5 Mbps MPLS network.  The branch office will have around
5-7 domain joined workstations, and the people there will require access to the existing file and exchange servers in the head office. 
I was thinking about not adding a RODC in the branch office and not creating another site in AD for the branch office either.  My thinking is that since the number of users is relatively low, it doesn't warrant having a new RODC and site.  The
traffic generated by the 5-7 user logon activities will be minimal, and the local profiles are stored on the workstations (no roaming profiles), so there shouldn't be much WAN link impact.  Obviously I would have to add the subnet from the branch office
to the SiteHO site. 
Can anybody think of something wrong with my reasoning?

I think the dedicated line has a little to do with AD since its used both to authenticate the users and move the data.
I am not sure what bandwith you get from an internet provider in your location, but for example you might get a 100Mb internet connection from an ISP. A VPN tunnel over a 100Mb internet connection I am guessing is faster then a 5Mb guaranteed MPLS link.
The advantage of MPLS is that you can have QoS policies for voice and video traffic.
If users move 'very large files' perhaps a local file server might be an good option. DFS replication can save a lot of bandwidth in that case. And then you would have 'local resources' in the branch and in case of wan failure the users will not be able
to access the local file server resource. So you would need a secondary DC in that location.
And if they are moving the files think (and check) the impact on the MPLS, because authentication requests go through that link, Exchange traffic (RPC MAPI) goes through that link so these might be affected. For example, lets say you have 2GB mailboxes.
All Outlook users use OST files. One user's profile gets corrupted and needs to be rebuilt. The Outlook client sets up a fresh OST copy of the mailbox so now its downloading a 2GB mailbox copy over a 5Mb MPLS while some other user is moving a 'large file'.
By local resources I am referring to file servers, printers, applications in the branch location that require AD authentication. Authentication works with both VPN and MPLS and in case the wan/vpn is down users can even log in with
cached credentials.
Hope it helps.
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