As harley said, parts of WV are great. We're about 40 minutes from Harper's Ferry (which you want to stay away from because of the weekend summer tourist traffic). One can still buy a habitable single-family home for less than six figures, although it would be what the real estate agents call "cozy".
With a wife and two kids, I'd say figure on at least $150k and up. That will buy a nice home. $350k+ will buy a McMansion, but with utility bills to match. Prices drop the farther north and west you go. But so do employment and shopping opportunities. The Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan county school systems are all pretty good to my knowledge, but we don't have kids so we didn't look into that. Taxes are a bit more than half of Maryland's.
There is plenty of country type living in the WV Panhandle, but Jefferson county is rapidly becoming citified, followed by Berkeley county farther north, then Morgan county. It looks like Morgan will remain mostly country for the next two generations. We absolutely love not having to plan our daily lives around traffic.
Sorry to hear of your injury. I'm retired law enforcement and worked a lot with fire/rescue/EMT guys.
But as you will see reading posts here, there is life after retirement.