You're really quite negative... you list remote possibilities as negatives! You could end up in a wonderful quiet apartment in walking distance to your new school with wonderful co-workers as well. It's probably going to be a mixture of both good and bad probably though :)

I thought you're also having problems with your apartment right now with it being really small and noisy neighbors and no pets allowed?

Sure it's stressful to move and change and of course you'll spent more money living close to bigger cities simply because there's so much more to do and spend money on! But you'll also have less free time working full time so less time to spend money :) It all evens out.

And about not being able to write your blog, why not? You managed fine with LJ even when you were still working full time. It's not like you have to post every day.

Try to be a bit more positive and anticipation will come :)

There are not many people who like working with little ones and have experience. I'm pretty sure you'll get tons of offers. And don't be afraid to apply to interesting jobs where they want a "native" speaker. If everything else fits they might take you after all. It's rare to have applications where everything fits :)