I relate. I hated living in the city all my life but the choices I made seemed to keep me stuck there. Marriage, daughter, career in aerospace computer engineering. Then I ended up STUCK in the bad marriage after my career collapsed with aerospace in Calif. then my mother was dx'ed with cancer. ( Lol talk about stuck....At 80 she was still living in the first & only house she ever owned).

Well she died....I sold her house....I was free to go where ever in the world I wanted....no longer trapped in the bad marriage or the city. I was suffering from PTSD from a trauma that happened with the home care person who manipulated her way into caring for my mother along with anorexia that hit at the same time.....but thanks to Internet 2 years after my mother died I talked to a real estate person in the only state that made sense to move to 2100 miles away where I didn't know anyone. Found a nice 10 acre farm I bought & moved to. Basically left EVERYTHING & EVERYONE behind. 8 1/2 years later I wonder if anyone thought I would make it alone this long let alone all the work needed to care for this place. I have come to know more people & am surrounded by friends that are more like family than friends. I FINALLY love life & everything around me. I wouldn't change the decision I made for anything. Everyone says how much courage it took to make the move I made.....maybe it was because things were so bad I had nothing to loose except material things I KNEW had nothing to do with my happiness.