Will you eventually leave your home town or stay there forever?

I left mine 37 years ago and have no desire to return.
A small country town, nil work opportunities, bad weather most of the time. Small town mentality, gossips, everyone judging.
Why would you not want to go out and experience the world beyond the town/city boundaries?

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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

I've wanted to leave for about 7 years now. I don't mean leave completely but to live somewhere else with the option to return if I wanted to. However, the pandemic, war and the change in the government made me look at things differently. Since 2022 I've felt like not leaving is actually taking a big risk and I'm trying to come up with some place where I possibly could and where it would be worth relocating to in these questionable times.

SinlessOnslaught · M

@CrazyMusicLover Stay safe, okay?

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@SinlessOnslaught Yeah, I'll try to not make any crazy decision to go to live in the other part of the world without any realistic plan about how to sustain myself there, no matter how much I'd like to.. 😬

SinlessOnslaught · M

@CrazyMusicLover Do you have any places in mind?

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@SinlessOnslaught I had before, now I'm not sure. The inflation in the city where I wanted to move to got really crazy. Moreover it's still too close and in the meantime I came across too many people who actually moved away from there for various reasons. I'll have to do my research. The big problem I have is that I don't drive, so either I start or will only have limited options where to go. And even bigger problem are my concerns about the general safety as a single woman.