Is your wife able to work? Is she working?

Are either of you veterans? Probably not or you could have tied into their health system.

If you did not have the health problems, I would move back to the better state if I had a job lined up. Can you contact former employer and say I can no longer drive but do you need a scheduler or something????

You could, again without health problems, do what others have done before and leave family in one area and work in another..horrib le option but could be short-term.

How many kids and how many bedrooms? Could you rent out a room?

If your wife is not working, I suggest she focus her energies on looking for work. Men, even in the best of health, get very demoralized..it seems worse than some women..and often women find the job first that will tide them over. Home school could be done by you or you could analyze that situation and send the kids to school, for free lunch if nothing else. mg