Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24179430-20140503124111/@comment-4975807-20140503212133

The price for stopping Pan's curse is that Regina and all the former Enchanted Forest inhabitants had to return to their old homeland. That would've included Emma, too, because she was born in the Enchanted Forest, even though she spent her life growing up in the Land Without Magic. Since Regina counterattacked Pan's curse from spreading by undoing the effects of her own curse, it essentially reversed what her curse created -- the town of Storybrooke and the false lives they led there. By doing so, they all went back to where they originally were before being taken by Regina's curse -- the Enchanted Forest.