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[quote=Anonymous]Just as a data point, when I moved away to college, I never moved back.  I really got emotionally attached to the city I moved to.  I made life-long friendships there that I still have. After college, I had job offers from my internships.  I took one that kept me there, and kept me with my friends.  And eventually I met the person I was going to marry, who was also from the city I moved to, and then we started a family here.  And now that our children are established here, and we are invested in our community and they are settled into their school communities, I don't think we'll ever move.

However, as my parents aged, I wanted to be closer to them to help them out.  And it became logistically very hard because of the distance. And I'm not sure what to do now because it wouldn't be good to move my parents away from everything they've known for 40 years.  And I really don't want to move either.

But an important difference is that I couldn't wait to move away because my childhood home life was kind of miserable for me and I was never allowed out so I also never got to know and never bonded with the place where I grew up.  So that aspect may be quite different for your daughter.  But for me, moving away was the best thing I ever did because it allowed me to spread my wings and find myself and break away from the very tightly controlled environment that was my home.

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