Too far from us (10 hours each way) and a dog that's described as a dog that isn't for everyone probably isn't for us since we are trying to start a family in the next year or so.
Honestly, we've looked into ones at shelters and any dogs we were interested in were at shelters that weren't interested in us. We are either out of their geographic zone because they only do local adoptions for home inspections and/or repeat wellness checks (which I find intrusive, I think one mandated quarterly visits for the life of the dog and they reserved the right to take the dog back solely on their discretion...), or they will only adopt to homes that have had the breed before or homes that don't/won't have young kids. If we wanted a pitbull, chihuahua, large dog or a senior dog going to a shelter would be easy. Getting something young with a small but not tiny adult size (15-25 pounds) isn't.
We have nothing against shelters and donate to a few local ones, but in this case its not to be.
Moving on, the puppy coincidentally was about 3 miles from my in laws so we had my wife's mother visit them yesterday. Super sweet house raised puppy, met the mother who was great along with one adult sister they kept from a litter two years ago. Father is a stud from a well regarded breeder and has been genetically tested and comes up clear on everything and we got glowing referrals/reviews from 3 previous clients. None of the other breeders we spoke with had either parents tested outside of one that just did it to see if they were carriers for rare colors (which we thought was a red flag). We put the deposit down last night and will get him later this month pending a checkup from my in-laws local vet.