<human>: Met a girl and fell head over heels for her. She's uber intelligent - she's a biology grad that goes on long hikes with me and tells me about sediment dispersal and paleogene rocks, and we generally can have engaging and intellectual discussions that last forever. She loves good craft beer and is as obsessed with making good food as me. We are very sexually compatible, too, which is far different than the relationship I was in previously. So, basically, she's awesome.

When we first started talking in February she made it clear that she was moving at the end of the summer to go to grad school in Austin, Texas. We decided first to just be fuck buddies. But we became far more than platonic as days seemed to merge with one another. I became her de jure roommate and have been over at her apartment many-a-night. So I decided to just make it official. 

I've graduated and want to move out of my small town to focus on my career, too. Before I met her I had been considering odd jobs in states far from mine (I'm talking out west) once I graduate, or graduate school for the next spring semester in Cleveland, New York City, or Pittsburgh. I want to experience something beyond where I'm at now. 

Now, I think I've fallen for her. I don't want her to go/she wants to bring me with her. My only issue is my friends do not support my decision. They (publicly, on Facebook) made fun of it. It makes me self-conscious. I feel like I've done things for past partners and friends related to accommodating them in the form of staying put in my old town, just as they are. 

Is the best way to have that experience - and to keep my new girlfriend who I love in my life - to follow that girlfriend for a year to a place I've never been before, even if I have just started dating her and have only known her for a few months? Have any of you made a life investment like that? Was it worth/not worth it?

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<bot>: Amazing girlfriend is moving, wants me to come with her, I want to too, friends have made me feel self-conscious about my decision to leave, etc.