I've moved and helped friends move quite a bit, and in my anecdotal experience, the only way a geographical change helps if either if you just can't do what you

I've moved and helped friends move quite a bit, and in my anecdotal experience, the only way a geographical change helps if either if you just can't do what you need to do in your home town (like moving to SV or NYC for work) or if your home town life is absolutely toxic and you can't get away from it without leaving. I moved across the country for no good reason except to move. Absolutely nothing was different. I was still the same person, except now without friends or family. I wasn't running from anything but everything followed me anyway. I've had half a dozen friends in the same situation. You can't run from yourself. Meanwhile I helped a friend move about a year ago because she couldn't get away from high school drama. She was in her 30s, and still caught up in high school drama from her high school friends. She moved away and made new friends and completely cut her old friends out of her life. Massive difference. I've had friends of friends do the same thing when their family life was toxic. Big help from the sounds of it. Immigrants do it constantly, running from toxic politics to start a new life in a safer place. It works. But if you're running from yourself? You can't run fast enough or far enough. You will always be you. Fix that before you fix your geography, or it will just be a very expensive lesson learned. It took a long time for my bank account to recover from my move and even longer for my circle of friends to recover.