Driving off the cliff?

I recently heard the expression 'Driving off a cliff' used to describe radically changing your enviroment inorder to challenge yourself, to infuse your life/career with new energy. While doing the sketch for this painting I was sitting in NYC waiting for my wife to complete a day working on the Sopranos. We had spent about a week in the city staying with friends and in a hotel just off of Times Square. Since that time, we have been debating the idea of relocating ourselves to the City. What are the advantages, what are we giving up. We have stood on a soap box of regionalism in the arts and have made a life for are selves living in a small city in the south, living as artists, raising a family, surrounding ourselves with dogs and cats. We have developed a network of like minded talented artists, actors, muscians and friends. Is it now time to change the base? To break with that commitment to regionalism and grab hold of the center of our respective arts? What can be gained is huge. What can be lost is not really known, but space and being able to be alone are among them. This is a six month old debate that seems to be gathering steam. Anyone's thoughts would be helpful, either from the City or those of us who have chosen not to go.