You have an excellent idea. You can always move back if you find it is not to your liking, but my guess is you will fall in love with the place. This would be a good time of the year to make the move, with Winter ending soon there. ND has the lowest unemployment rate in the US and employment keeps growing there.
I lived and worked in Watertown SD for a while. I was young and the coming winter scared me out of there. I went instead to Reno, fun, sun, dancing girls, water skiing, snow skiing....Loved it. If I would have stayed in SoDak, I would have been married. I was dating a girl whose daddy did not want me messin’ round with that. He actually hunted me down with a shotgun, cornered my butt and wanted to know my intentions. Tell you the truth, my intentions changed that day. He did a good job of keeping his “baby” pure.