To be, or not to be?

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A woman I work with grew up in Texas and her family still lives there. She and her husband have been living in NJ for a few years, but her husband recently received a job offer in Texas. The plan was for him to go down there, start his new job, and she would follow him back to Texas when the apartment lease is up in October. She went to Texas last week to visit, and while she misses home and her husband, she decided that she liked this smaller, less populated, quaint part of New Jersey better than the very busy area of Texas she would be living in. She mentioned trying to find a less expensive apartment in NJ so that she could live here for at least 2-3 more years before moving back home. I don't know how I feel about her situation. I find it strange that she doesn't want to move back to the area where her husband is living and I don't know if I could stand being separated that long, especially at that level of commitment. She is a receptionist in our office, and while her job is important, it's certainly not a set of job skills she couldn't use anywhere else in the country... I just wonder why a person would want to be separated like that for so long...