Wild. For what it's worth, I had a friend who was going to sell his house here to move abroad and he had a sub-1k mortgage. He was going to list it. In the end, they rented it out still making plans to leave indefinitely and after a few months, realized the plan was to come back after a year to their old house. So, my advice is always to test out the waters before making a very expensive and permanent change. Glad you're open to renting instead.