Maybe your hometown isn’t too small for you. Maybe it’s waiting for what you’ll build in it.

The assumption that you have to leave somewhere to do anything serious is common and only half true. Some places are short of opportunity, and some are short of somebody willing to start something. A town with nothing in it is also a town with no competition for whatever you decide to make. Leaving is a real option and so is the other one.

Look at what is missing where you live, and ask what the smallest version of it would be: a team, a night, a service, a club. Try it once, locally, before deciding the place has nothing for you.