To get away from the mad 'Lindon-centric' thing ...
So, I'm convinced this move is about your anxiety. You're finding coronavirus stuff hard, the future uncertain, and being an adult bloody difficult. You're finding it hard to deal with the pressures of being a parent to an anxious child.
You dream - fondly - of your teenage years, when you were the one being parented and you had lots of fun. In a non-pandemic idyll.
Now, my mother in law went through something similar.
She was living in a gorgeous city - not London, folks!
Old age, in her case, came knocking.
Her mother died, her partner developed some of the infirmities of old age. So did she, to be honest.
And how did she deal with this sudden intrusion of difficult reality?
She started dreaming of the rural idyll of her youth.
And moved to somewhere very close to her childhood home.
Her closest friends warned her of the difficulties. She stopped speaking to them!
With hindsight, it's easy to see why - they were forcing reality to intrude on what was a fantasy-based solution to deep, in acknowledged fears about threatening changes to her life. Of course she found their well-meaning observations unbearable.
Roll forward five years and it's been an ongoing disaster.
Because the whole thing was conducted at the level of fantasy solutions to problems she refused to consciously acknowledge or deal with.
It could have been different. Acknowledging what she really wanted to move away from would have resulted in a quite different move , and would almost certainly have been life-enhancing and successful.
She might even have been able to put things in place to make her actual move successful.
But it was all done from avoidance and denial. And it's a train-wreck.
And she didn't even have to factor in the wishes/well-being of anyone other than herself and her partner.