Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20180306163804/@comment-27060727-20180314165237

When the curse hit, we were given the impression that everyone in season 7 had been living in the EF2 for like, 8+ years. So if they all decide to head back there, that's not a surprise. Literally none of them were still calling Storybrooke home.

That said, they could leave it at Henry/Lucy/Ella spending time with his SB family, and then show the road sign as the last scene, so it's like we, the audience, are "leaving Storybrooke."