Weirfan
I agree with everything you have said here. We are also a bit more comfortable with change than most. I can’t tell you how many friends, our age group, are just so set in their ways, they won’t move. Heck, most of them complain about their house, have lots of positive equity and still refuse to look at something new, in the same area, simply because they are comfortably unhappy. I don’t recall the source, but I was once told “people will continue on a miserable path, until the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the fear of changing it." I tend to agree.
You and I obviously are very different in our circumstances and our ability/willingness to pick up and make a change. I completely respect that. Many here are my senior and I’m sure if they are honest, wouldn’t actually make a move simply because it scares the shit out of them. There are hundreds of excuses, believe me, I have heard a lot of them from 30 year olds as to why they "can’t move". I chose to live what I preach, either make excuses or make a change, just don’t expect me to listen to you bitch if you choose to make excuses.
So in conclusion to my rambling, which really has no point, yes, I would try something else. I don’t see it as a risk/scary thing, I see it as an opportunity to try new things, if I don’t like it, so be it, move again. With my wife in health care, and an abundance of over-confidence in my ability to make myself a means of survival in any number of ways, I don’t feel the constraints that many do.