Why don't you leave? Isn't it nice to sit outside in the sun sometimes?
I don't leave for a number of reasons.
I've kind of spoken about the reasons in a wider sense, but the last few years since moving away from the northwest have been ever-increasing blows to my mental health, and especially in the last year. and then there's the various physical issues...
I don't feel too comfortable giving a lot of the finer details since there are at least a couple of people here that will _intentionally_ give people a hard time even when they know the person they're picking at has completely lost it.
Besides that, I'm more and more having to "babysit" my parents for various reasons - Emergency medical services were just here again yesterday, for example.