<human>: This girl was a roommate on my first year out of college (met online through some roommate searching service). We are not roommates anymore but we still live <10 miles from each other and hang out fairly often. She has done SOOO much for me in the past that I've taken for granted as normal GGG bro-moves. 

In the four years I've known her, she has remained single while I've had shitty relationships all over the place (got cheated on, dumped on my birthday, etc). During all that time, she has been a pretty major source of comfort and platonic companionship, more so than even my own family. 

The realization that I put her in the friend zone was after I said I want to move to a different state. I live in the midwest and work for a very big, well-known company as a software engineer but I want to move to Silicon Valley, Seattle, or New York where the high-tech scenes really are. After I told her this, she said that she would want to move to whereever I go, throwing in that she wants to "be with me forever." Being the oblivious piece of shit that I am, I didn't catch on to the significance of that conversation until well after we had parted ways. 

I figure that a relationship with her is inevitable since she has said that she wants to live close to me wherever I move but I want to get her out of the friend zone as fast as possible (and as not-awkward as possible). As someone who has been friendzoned multiple times in the past, I know how fucking shitty it is.

So Reddit, how the fuck do you ask girls - who are longtime friends - out? All my previous relationships have come from bars, clubs, one-night stands, etc. which explains their shittiness. Seriously, I need step-by-step guides here. I have no idea how to initiate relationships outside of the bar/club scene.

I can't believe I didn't fucking see it till now.

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: Girl has been there for me the entire time ive known her. Realized I put her into some kind of male friend zone. How do I bring her out of it?