Moving closer to opportunity can still mean moving farther from the people who made you ready for it.

A good move is usually described in one direction only: toward the job, the city, the chance. The other direction is real too, because the people you are leaving are exactly the ones who spent years making you someone worth hiring. Both facts are true at once. Feeling the loss does not mean the decision was wrong.

If you are moving, let the leaving have its own attention rather than folding it into the excitement. Tell the people what they gave you, in specific terms, before you go. Then build the calls and visits into your new calendar early, while the intention is strong, because distance does its work quietly.