Hello there, I'm new here and looking for some advice.  My wife and I have been married for over ten years, we have a seven year old boy and a baby girl on the way.   We are a very strong marriage and live a happy life, the thing is I was recently offered a job opportunity in New York city, we're currently living in an small town that's 16 hours away from where I would be working, so we decided to move to New York  in the next few months.  I was very exited at the prospect of living in the city and finally working on my dream job, especially since my financial situation hasn't been any good lately, but then I started thinking about how this could affect my son and I got kinda worried.  You see, he's lived his whole life in this town, he has the same group of friends since he was a baby and adores his current school.  My mother in law and my parents also live here, so my son is very close to his grandparents, they have babysitted him since he was born and he spends lots of time with them, beside that, my sister and my wife's brothers also live in the area, so my kid is very used to have a bunch of cousins around to play with.  Up in the city we don't have any family, nor friends close by, my son would have to stats fresh in a new school where he would be treated like a stranger  (something he has never faced before), he would only have his mom and me.  I'm really afraid about how this could harm him emotionally, he's a happy kid right now  and I don't wanna change that, but at the same time I'm dealing with some serious financial problems at the moment, I know it's almost impossible for me to get a job as juicy as the one I'm being offered at the city and with the new baby on the way I'm afraid it will be too much to handle.   My wife says our son will adapt to our new lifestyle sooner or later since he is still very young, but I'd still want to hear other opinions.