considering staying home

My baby is due in July. my husband really wants me to stay home with our baby because he had a stay at home mom growing up. I'm honestly terrified of putting my child into daycare so I've considered opening an in home daycare. my husband thinks it's he easier if I just stayed home so we still have freedom to go away for a few days or something if we wanted to. I'm so happy that he's so open to whatever I'm comfortable with. I also did the math and we'd have a little over $1000 left each month after bills and groceries. I'm just worried I'll go stir crazy staying home. we live in a very small town (only 1000 people live here) we're an hour away from any family and we don't have any friends in the area either. we visit our families and friends a lot on the weekends. do any of your women feel lonely or like you're only purpose is raising your child? I'm not in any way putting SAHMs down. I've just heard many women say they eventually feel this way and I'm worried I will too after a while. any tips on ways to avoid this? how did u know staying home was the right choice for your family?