Boston

Boston, Massachusetts is the largest city and capital of Massachusetts in the United States of America. Whenever someone decides to leave Storybrooke in search of a better life, they go to Boston.

When Emma Swan turned sixteen, she left Maine and went to Phoenix, Arizona, where she met a man and had a child with him. She named the child Henry, gave him up for adoption, and left. At some point she became a bail bondswoman living in Boston.

At the age of ten, Henry took his elementary school teacher's credit card and used it to track Emma down. Then he went to Boston in search of her. He found her after she had caught a bail jumper and convinced her to return to Storybrooke with him.

Shortly after Emma's arrival, a young pregnant woman named Ashley Boyd planned to go to Boston. However, as she was leaving Storybrooke, she went into labor and decided to stay in Storybrooke for the sake of her child, Alexandra. She also becomes engaged to Alexandra's father, Sean Herman.

When David Nolan wakes up from his coma, his wife, Kathryn Nolan, reveals that she applied to a law school in Boston and was accepted. The original plan was for him to accompany her, but Kathryn left him behind after his affair with schoolteacher Mary Margaret Blanchard was made public, and went missing as she attempted to leave Storybrooke. She later shows up safely behind Granny's Diner.

When Ruby gets into a fight with her grandmother, she packs up and waits for a bus to take her to Boston. Many years before Emma's return, she had tried to go to Boston, but her grandmother's heart attack had kept her from doing so. While she's at the bus stop, Dr. Whale tries to help her, but Mary Margaret and Emma chase him off. Ruby later reconciles with her grandmother and decides to stay behind in Storybrooke.

After August Booth brings Emma to the tree he claims she entered this Earth in, Emma decides to leave Storybrooke and its "craziness" behind and return to her old life in Boston. She packs up and asks Henry to come with her. However, Henry realizes what she is planning, and crashes the car, insisting that she cannot leave Storybrooke until the curse is broken. Emma decides to stay behind when Henry falls into a coma in the twenty-first episode.

In the season finale, David reveals to Mary Margaret that he is moving into Kathryn's apartment in Boston, which she had planned to use during her time at law school. He asks her to give him a reason to stay in Storybrooke, but Mary Margaret refuses and he prepares to go to Boston.

As he is just about to leave Storybrooke, Emma breaks the Dark Curse and David remembers his former life as Prince James. He returns to Storybrooke and reconciles with Mary Margaret, who is actually Snow White.