"...I'm much more attached to where I live..."

I am now. I was raised far from extended family, however, and didn't even understand what an uncle, cousin, or such concepts signified for most of my formative years. While I have no extended family I know, I have valuable relationships with friends and neighbors here today, and reckon such value of far greater worth to me than mere emuneration. I have had money and property and friends and goodwill, and the former can be taken from me. The latter cannot.