This is huge. In my experience, I'd say the biggest hurdle to convincing management to let you work remote is the perceived effect it will have on your productivity. Most of the management I've run into and worked for tend to see remote workers as too lacking in "team communication" for the team to benefit from the relationship, and there are still quite a few people out there that think remote workers are very much less productive than people who come to an actual office. If you have no remote workers at your office currently, this is probably going to be an uphill battle, unless you also work in a place where good ideas win, no matter where they come from. Then you might have a shot. But anyways, this advice is best, a trial run before you move. Good luck!

This is good, because there is some hurdles that will have to be overcome and it will start out not working well until a few things are figured out. For me the biggest is that we typically communicate in the office face-to-face or over chat. When people work remotely, they give up the face-to-face and rely only on chat which doesn't work well for some things. It's important to learn to pick up the phone, use a virtual white board, screen share, etc.