Staying in your hometown is fine too, as long as it’s a choice and not a hiding place.

Moving away is treated as the ambitious choice and staying as the safe one, which is not reliably true in either direction. Staying can be exactly right: your people are here, the work is here, you like how the place feels in October. It only goes wrong when staying is how you avoid finding out whether you could manage somewhere else.

Ask the honest question once: if going were easy, would you still be here. If yes, this is a decision and you can stop apologizing for it. If no, you do not have to move tomorrow, but it helps to know what is actually holding you.