For some people, but in this case I can tell you it wasn't.

Quite the opposite of raising a family, he left his family all here to get away. Left his kids, grandkids, siblings, etc.

I'm not sure why you assume we're hostile. Maybe he felt that way, but if so, thats only because we didn't engage with his tirades about different political agendas. Otherwise I feel like we all had a pretty friendly relationship, and his move caught us by surprise.

I hear you though. Maybe he's just using politics as a cover, and there's some deeper dislike of us all (including his family) that drove him to leave... pretty sure its just politics though.