You can leave your hometown to chase it, or come back one day and build what it was missing. Both count.

There is a story going around that leaving is the brave choice and staying is what happens when you run out of nerve. It is not that clean. Some people need distance before they can find out what they are capable of, and some can see exactly what their town is missing because they grew up missing it.

Nothing about this has to be settled at seventeen. Notice which one pulls at you when nobody is asking. Then get good at something that travels well in either direction.