I agree that choosing to live outside of your comfort zone is a good thing. Last year, I left everything that I had ever known to go to a school a thousand miles away and live with my boyfriend of two years, while the majority of my friends stayed at home with their parents doing the convenient thing. The first time I went back to visit, I was shocked over how different they all were, until I realised that the problem was that they were exactly the same, caught up in the same unhealthy relationships, too scared to leave their own backyard and that I had moved on.

So, yes, change is terrifying, but the only things worse, in my opinion, is staying exactly the same. Besides, I've always thought that the university experience was meant to be a string of minor heart attacks...