History YouCantGoHomeAgain / RealLife

* Many unmanned spacecraft that are sent to explore other planets are often unable to return to Earth once their mission is finally complete.

*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Villages The Lost Villages]] in [[CanadaEh Canada]] can be included on that list. Most of them were abandoned, the others relocated, to allow for the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Building foundations and sidewalks can still sometimes be seen when the water level is low. Other than those brief glimpses, and a memorial park, the villages have disappeared beneath the water.

* It used to be a common thing in American culture -- still is in certain parts of the country -- where parents would kick their children (especially boys) out of the house as soon as they turned 18 or graduated HighSchool depending on when in the school year their birthday fell (by law, hitting 18 legally makes you an adult). This is due to the belief that children are supposed to face the world on their own and survive on their own, or perhaps resulting from accumulated strife during the teenage years, as a response to the kid's expectations regarding so-far free laundry service and food.\\
In areas where this mindset is/was prevalent, children who lived with their parents were often branded as "lazy", "freeloaders", and/or "failures"; while parents who allowed it without preconditions (exorbitant rent, etc) were openly mocked by other parents. Media will often portray them also as sexually immature or dysfunctional.
** While this mindset is still around, especially in parts of the South, it has become increasingly rare thanks to America's post-2008 perpetually-sluggish economy and the ever-increasing cost of basic necessities (rent, utilities, food, gas/petrol) being at its highest in 40 years. This reality has forced many twenty-something Americans to either find roommates or stay home with the family.
** This is a good example of entertainment lagging behind reality, since living with your parents past high-school/college age ''does'' make you an acceptable target for comedians and the media.

* This can occur during severe infestations of pest animals (IE: Rats, cockroaches, etc.). The infestations can be so severe that the families living in said home have no choice but to pack up their things and leave. The Creator/AnimalPlanet series ''Series/{{Infested}}'' is a documentary that is basically about these situations (Though, fortunately, they are often [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], but not always).
** Some infestations can become so severe that the home is essentially uninhabitable to humans.

* Part of the reason for the SadBollywoodWedding trope is that once married, it was traditionally expected that a woman would join her husband's family and never see or contact her family of origin ever again.

* Many UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n artists and creators have gone into exile for opposing the war in UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} that started in 2022 (it's now been declared a crime there to oppose the so-called "Special Military Operation"), such as director Creator/AndreyZvyagintsev (who now resides in France).

** This might also be the case with TimeTravel-we’ve only figured out how to go to the future, not the past.

* It used to be a common thing in American culture –- still is in certain parts of the country -- where parents would kick their children (especially boys) out of the house as soon as they turned 18 or graduated HighSchool depending on when in the school year their birthday fell (by law, hitting 18 legally makes you an adult). This is due to the belief that children are supposed to face the world on their own and survive on their own, or perhaps resulting from accumulated strife during the teenage years, as a response to the kid's expectations regarding so-far free laundry service and food.\\

* It used to be a common thing in American culture – still is in certain parts of the country – where parents would kick their children (especially boys) out of the house as soon as they turned 18 or graduated HighSchool depending on when in the school year their birthday fell (by law, hitting 18 legally makes you an adult). This is due to the belief that children are supposed to face the world on their own and survive on their own, or perhaps resulting from accumulated strife during the teenage years, as a response to the kid's expectations regarding so-far free laundry service and food.

In areas where this mindset is/was prevalent, children who lived with their parents were often branded as "lazy", "freeloaders", and/or "failures"; while parents who allowed it without preconditions (exorbitant rent, etc) were openly mocked by other parents. Media will often portray them also as sexually immature or disfunctional.
** While this mindset is still around, especially in parts of the South, it has become increasingly rare thanks to America's post-2008 perpetually-sluggish economy and the ever-increasing cost of basic necessities (rent, utilities, food, gas/petrol) being at its highest in 40 years. This reality has forced many twentysomething Americans to either find roommates or stay home with the family.