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Rubelle wrote: About August knowing where SB is located, I think when he tried to make Emma believe, he took her out for  drink/date /drink-date and took her to a tree in SB, and showed the gateway through which they both came. So he knew where he came to and where everyone else is coming to.

It is a speculation on my part.

It's not possible for them to have come out in Storybrooke - they would have been trapped there if they were, and the BF had the wardrobe made to shield her from the Curse. She had to grow up outside in order to save it.