MY DH and I are starting to think about moving somewhere warmer with our young kids. It was his idea but I'm starting to feel more and more enthusiastic and now he's suggesting we just take the leap and move there in time for the kids to start school next September, rent a house and if it doesn't work out we can move back.
Background, we run a small, stable business together providing professional services. We can work from anywhere, he needs to be in London a few times a month but can arrange his own schedule. We live in London with 2 DC aged 5 and 7 and rent the house we live in now but also own some property on the outskirts of London, which we rent out. The rent we make on the house we own covers both the mortgage and our rent where we live now. We are Irish but have both lived in London for a long time, we have no family here but we do have good friends and a support network.
Pros: We are already expats really and Spain is nearly as accessible as the UK for our family in Ireland. I used to speak conversational Spanish (am crap now but pretty confident I can get back to a decent level in a few months with effort). It's warm, my eldest is athematic and suffers in the cold months, we aren't reliant on finding jobs there, would keep property in London so not severing all ties, we can afford to pay for school there if we need to and we are both outgoing and make friends quite easily.
Cons: We moved to where we live now to get the kids into the great state school they are in and if we leave they'll lose their places. Worried about unsettling them generally and we are really quite happy where we are now, we have a nice life. DH might struggle with the language and we would probably be lonely at first.
Has anyone done this? Do I need to take a few steps back and rethink? The math seems to add up but then I think my excitement might be clouding my judgement.