[Semi Civil Servant]

Can you get/afford decent health care insurance for a year?

Can you find PT work to supplement your nest egg as you travel across the country?

Are you willing to only spend half your equity on this trip and save the rest for another house elsewhere? (And I'm assuming your NET equity is at LEAST $100,000.)

If you can't answer "yes" to these questions, I believe you would be wise to think of another strategy for your situation.

[Semi Civil Servant]

I used to work in job placement and I've seen lots of dead broke people who sold out and literally loaded up the station wagon with the kids for the promised land. They were usually in a very bad way by the time they saw me.

But if you have the legitimate resources to do this without ending up dead broke in "alien territory", go for it.