The basic question is, would you relocate, 130 miles from 'home', for a better school and lifestyle?
Our eldest DC was unsuccessful in the 11+ locally to us and the local comprehensive is dire.
DH and I have talked about moving for a long time so this decision is exclusively based around schools, but the 11+ has forced our hand to make a decision.
We have 2 options; as this has been a long term idea, DC took and passed the 11+ in another region. We could move there and give them the grammar opportunity, but we're not 💯 sold on the area. Or, we go somewhere else, an area we really like, no grammar school but an excellent comprehensive.
Other ruminations I'm struggling with:
Right now we live on the easy commute into London. If we move, I worry this takes away the opportunity for a city career like DH has enjoyed when the kids are young adults.
Hospitals; one DC has complex heath needs and right now we have a major hospital 15 mins across town. If we move, it will be 30 mins on a motorway. But if he were very ill, we'd need an ambulance or maybe air ambulance so this maybe not the worry I foresee it to be.
So..would you take a leap of faith for a better education for both kids in the long term? Or stick out out where we are?
Work for DH and isn't a factor; he's now fully remote and my work is all over the country so finding a new role shouldn't be an issue.
Thanks in advance!