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No shame in your situation. You had the courage to move, you took a chance, and saw you did not like it. It's important to take chances in life, who knows if you did nit, you would regret it. Nothing wrong with failing, what's wrong is never trying.
I moved ~800 miles for a job. The first 6-8 months were agony. I didn't know anyone where I moved and my teammates at work are very different from me in that they have families/kids and I was just the youngin' that moved from Seattle (Salt Lake people HATE Seattle people, so that didn't help).
Starting a new social circle from scratch after college (or ever) is so hard. Some people fear it so much that they hold back/dumb down their careers and don't move from their economically constricted "home" area.
I was similar to you in wanting to move away from my hometown and talking about it a lot beforehand. When I did move from my home land of little to no legitimate opportunity, several friends said that they could never move away and that what I was doing was "ballsy"... They'd be like "you have no family there, or anyone??"
I'm glad I did it and have now stuck it out for over two years. For reference, if you asked me three years ago to pick a US metro area of over 1 million people to relocate to, Salt Lake would have been near the bottom, if not last on my list. It still is, I pretty much hate it as far as cities go, but I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.
You can ALWAYS give up and move back home - as a matter of fact, your friends family probably all expected it from the second you left. Stick it out a bit longer and see what happens, you'll probably be glad you did. I realize your situation is not exactly the same, but that's my outlook.
It's only been 2 months. Call/Skype your family. Go out and make some friends. Build a life.
Perhaps it is NOT a mistake. You are going through a big adjustment. Did you honestly think it was going to be easy?
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