My husband and I made a final decision today. We are leaving our Novus Ordo parish, the one where we went through RCIA and acceptance into the church. We will be joining the FSSP parish. It’s a longer drive to get there, and it doesn’t have a parish school, but more and more we find ourselves feeling at home there. I feel as if I am finally a part of the authentic Catholic Church of the centuries.
The decision has been agonizing because our original parish has been good, but we recently were assigned a new priest who has turned it upside down. We were torn between the Ordinary Form and the Extraordinary Form, and the two parishes, to begin with, but the silliness and the heterodoxy introduced by the new pastor, all in the name of inclusiveness, was just too much for us.
Please pray for us, that we have a smooth transition (especially our young son), and also pray for the pastor of our old church. I fear he will drive souls away from the Church entirely.
Anytime I see someone leave their home parish where they were once happy I always feel a bit sad for a number of reasons. First, once they leave in most cases the parish will be just a touch worse-off without them. From my viewpoint leaving a parish when things get difficult is one of the main (although not primary) reasons so many parishes are suffering today.
Second; I think leaving lays a very destructive foundation for dealing with problems. Problems at your parish? Just move-on like our separated brothers and sisters in Christ. Each move gets a little bit easier (often ending in effectively leaving the Church altogether) and the people moving seem to pick up an assortment of scars a long the way which they bring to their new spiritual homes.
Third; while we must be spiritually nourished (and if one is not then one
must go elsewhere) we only really grow as Catholic Christians during difficult times. Suffering (yes, even the sort of suffering you are going through) is part of the Catholic Christian experience. God could eradicate all the silliness in all of His Catholics parishes instantaneously if He wanted too and so far He has not. There is a reason for that as well.
Fourth; I think people leave prematurely. Your current pastor isn’t going to be there forever. If your former parish gets a great new pastor in time, are you going to change again? We often read or hear about people moving between parishes and I’m convinced that most people who move, talk or write about their experiences as sort of a way to reassure themselves that they did the right thing when in reality they have some nagging doubt that perhaps they should have remained at their spiritual home.
My ancestral home parish had been pretty much so-so from a pastor standpoint for many, many years. The mid 1990’s began a string of three very difficult pastors. Things moved from difficult to tough to downright grim and many left. Hanging in there taught me a lot. Very much a tempering of my faith making it far, far stronger then it would be today had I decided to just leave. I think it taught a lot of others as well.
It also allowed some of us to gain enough influence to ensure (at least with the current bishop) that we never have to endure that sort of shenanigans again. In recent years it seems like that sort of influence is largely held by people with polar opposite views of our own because they had the mettle to hang in there.
For the past few years we have had a wonderful pastor and a some really great parochial vicars. For years I was very abrupt with people who made comments about how blessed we were because I could not see the good from all the bad (I doubt they could either – there were just glad-handing.) Today I find myself making the same comments because we truly are. My biggest regret however are those we lost (most changed parishes and then eventually just floated away altogether) during that very difficult decade.
Good luck.
I pray you experience and appreciate the full spiritual fruit of such a change. 
