What are the main reasons not to emigrate or move abroad yet?

What are the main reasons for not choosing for a long stay abroad or emigrating yet?

Motivations are, of course, personal. To get you started with your personal list: in general, many emigrants mention the following disadvantages:

1. you get relational problems.
2. your partner or children get bored.
3. your children cannot catch up at their new school.
4. you have to deal with illnesses or divorces in the family.
5. you will lose relationships with family or friends, because 'at a distance it is different anyway'.
6. you will not be able to adapt to local circumstances.
7. wherever you are, you take yourself, your problems, your routine with you.
8. you are always on your own, no family or good friends nearby.
9. abroad you will end up either in a gigantic city or somewhere isolated in the background.
10. abroad it is just hard work, or even harder.
11. a very strong bond with your children or grandchildren, family or friends and already dreading the lack of contact can certainly factor into your decision whether to emigrate, and if so where to.

And please note:

1. a low-cost airline ticket for a 2-3 hour flight offers more opportunities for regular (mutual) visits than an expensive intercontinental flight with multiple transfers and long travel times.
2. some emigrants like the idea that "Homeland" is within a foreseeable number of car hours from their new place of residence, so that they are not dependent on (sometimes uncertain) flights, for example.

Quotes

"Anonymous persons at offices without addresses with unreachable phone numbers who make all kinds of demands on your emigration through incomprehensible forms. And this at considerable cost with the risk of land deportation or detention. The motivation to persevere in spite of everything sometimes had to come from our toes. It did not make us feel welcome, but now, once settled, it is wonderful to live and do business. The Canadian people welcomed us with open arms."

Emigrant in Spain