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If you've lived and gone to school in the same state or even region of the country your whole life, then I'd definitely suggest moving elsewhere, even if it's just for a year or two. I think you learn so much about who you are when you find yourself outside your normal surroundings and with people who are different from the ones you've known before.
I went away to college in a different region of the country from where I grew up my whole life, and it was a fantastic growing experience for me, adapting to a different sort of crowd and the regional peculiarities. It forces you to reconsider things you may have always taken for granted.
I'd say go for it. There's no reason you need to stay in one place your whole life, even if your family's there. I'm about to do the same myself, possibly moving to yet another region of the country to take a job (not the one I grew up in or the one I went to college in). It's scary but it's worth it. And this is the time, when you're young and not tied down by a spouse or kids.
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