I left my family because, as much as I love them, living with them was not a good situation for me, in more ways than one. I wish I had not had to leave the cats, because they are wonderful, but I felt it would not have been fair to bring them on a drive across the country, uprooting them from the environment in which they were most confortable, especially when I have no money to provide for them (I can barely provide for myself at this point, lol). Anyway, those were my reasons.