From my travel experience, hotels are all the same everywhere. Pannara's are all the same everywhere. Unless you can really have time to see a place and meet the locals, being somewhere is the same as being somewhere else.
That was my entire reason for wanting to travel. Because if somewhere is the same as anywhere if you can't see the place... Then WHY should I stay where I am NOW? If me being in KC is the same as me being anywhere else, what reasons do I have to stay here? I mean aside from my concern for my mother that I mentioned in first post? My friends aren't close enough to keep me here, btw
I have no other family, no kids to look after. I would miss my friends but well, I don't see them all that often to begin with. We are happy talking online/phone too.
@AlanStache, I don't mind finding all the basics all the time. My basics include a walmart (if not better, but walmart is easy to find) and that's about it :S I can pick up food from there and anything that I might need quickly. The gym, well the housing place mentioned it might have one, if not, most large hospitals have one that employees can use so I would use that. And cool restaurants? I don't eat out that often. I already work nights, so I'm not working "banker" hours. And I prefer nights :) I have the entire day to look forward to, get things done, and since everyone is at their work, all the stores are empty. As for meeting people, I could do that well enough any time of day I'd think. Sure I can't hit up the bars... but again, I already dont' do that now and don't see myself doing so in the future.
edit: now that I think about it, why wouldn't it be hard to travel with a spouse/kids? From what I've heard the housing money is generous enough that you could stay somewhere else with room enough for spouse/kids... And if spouse is a stay at home one and kids aren't old enough for school... why not? At about $35/hour for a travel job, I don't see how a mustachian wouldn't earn enough money to make it happen. They could even rent out the home.