Hoping that it works itself out

Long story short my boyfriend and I have been together for 8 years I have a 8 year old daughter, he has taken on the role as her father since day 1..

I am a teacher and he is a welder so both of us can get jobs anywhere pretty much

We live in Albuquerque New Mexico and I've been born and raised here... same with him and we're ready for a change. His job will pay better in other states and I'm pretty sure any other state will pay better than Albuquerque teachers lol... both of our entire families live here so NM is where our entire support system is....

Anyways this morning he was saying how if we're going to move we should do it soon... I told them okay we can start looking and see what we come up with and then he mentioned how possibly maybe he'll just go and I could stay

I was like wait like you move to a different state and me stay here and he was like yeah I could totally just send back money no big deal and I was telling him how I didn't want to do that long distance relationship especially if we are TTC.... he said I don't know we'll talk about it later and then he left for work

What would you guys suggest we do??

My daughter's biological father is somewhat involved so I know that if I went to court to get permission to move that would not even be an issue so honestly I don't know what the issue is and I don't know why he would even want to do that