Currently we live in the city. Our neighborhood is close to downtown, very walkable and convenient, but very suited toward couples with no children, and terrible schools. Our LO is six months, and our plan was always to move to a better school district within the next three or four years.

We both want to give LO a little bit of our own childhood experience. I grew up in a smallish city in the south, SO grew up in a rural area. He wants 1-2 acres of land, and not to move to a subdivision of McMasions with houses on top of each other. I do not want a commute longer than 20-40 minutes, and I'd still like to be able to walk places, and not drive 30 minutes for the closest stores, and have some exposure to events and a variety of experiences not always available in suburbia.

We can't afford what we both want in our area, one or both of us would have to sacrifice something. We could if we moved somewhere completely different, meaning far enough that we'd be changing jobs, have to find new local friends, possibly changing states.

Is it crazy to start a whole new life? It just seems to me that those type of changes normally come when you have to move for a job or school, not just to create the childhood you envisioned for your LO.