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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
Has anyone ever written a story where the person who fled town right after high school comes back for a long visit, falls in love, and then the happy couple proceeds to move back to where he or she fled to and live happily ever after in a busy landscape of asphalt, corporate office jobs, and take-out food, for the rest of their lives?
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It's not precisely what you want, but Amy Andrews'
Holding Out for a Hero set in Australia, which was a
freebie a couple of years ago, seems to fit at least that much of the description.
According to the customer reviews, the small town is depicted as more dystopic than idyllic, but the couple does meet and initially get together during a visit back to the old hometown after a long absence (but then reunite again in the city), and apparently go back there a few times for personal reasons. I skimmed the last few chapters of the book, and it seems to end with them settling in the city, maintaining their careers intact, and happy to have gotten away.
Anyway, it was free and if you got it then, it might be worth giving a try?
(Incidentally, I think perhaps the trope you want might be easier to find in chick-lit romantic comedies than dedicated romance, though that's only the impression that I get from the respective genres' differing core sensibilities, and not based on actually having read all that many of them.)