@RumplesGirl wrote:
Did Emma leave to pick them up in another city and we just didn’t see that?
In Price of Gold, it’s pretty ambiguous. She says she’s glad her things are “here”–but not delivered or anything specific. Quite possible she drove back to Boston, packed her own apartment and stuff in offscreenville. That explanation makes a lot of sense with the idea SB was self-sustaining and no one really left or came.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass