Leaving the South

We've been looking forward to this day for 2 years now; however, now that it's here, we're so torn. Of course we want to be back with family in the west, but we acquired some more family members here and we are so sad to leave them. Saying goodbye to everything that we became accustom to out here is painful. We are missing the way people talk, the long conversations with the checkout grandma at walmart, the thick green lush surroundings, and mostly just the way people here are instantly familiar. Hopefully its rubbed off on us permanently.
We made many close friends. We spent our last year living near the Stites. They have become family to us. Spending time with them was a daily occurrence; most of the time it involved them doing something kind for us. Their kids were so kind to let us hog their parents while we were here. Each one of them treated us like family. We miss them very very much.
How ironic that we have missed our families back in Utah and Arizona (and Washington) for 2 years, and now that we're returning we are missing our family in the south. We wont ever be able to not be missing someone.