Spending your life in your hometown has many advantages. Your parents and grandparents probably live nearby, plus siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins; you can be part of their everyday lives and see each other as often as you like instead of just once or twice a year. You are able to help each other. You can keep in contact with childhood and high school friends. You can raise your children in similar surroundings where you were raised. If they stay in their hometown, the more the merrier.
You can use your talents, develop a career, and benefit your lifelong home. You know the lay of the land and can easily get to where you want to go. Everything is familiar. You can witness gradual changes and improvements over the years and become a link in history of a place you call home.
Moving away from home may feel like an adventure or perhaps something you think is necessary for financial security. Your unique talents may require another place. You may move to other cities, states, or countries. But is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence?
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