Cities keep growing. Follow the jobs there, or rebuild where you're from?

Depends if you have skills they actually need there or if you're just romanticizing the past.

My whole family is back home. Sure, the wages are lower, but I'd trade money for actually seeing them more than once a year.

The math is simple: follow opportunity. You can always help your hometown once you've built wealth elsewhere.

Remote work changed everything for me. Got a city salary, moved back, and now I'm actually helping my community grow instead of abandoning it.

Cities are already drowning. What about the people who actually want to stay where they grew up? Not everyone needs to move.