Flagstaff, Arizona, by no means felt like house to Meri Brown.
The Sister Wives star resides in Parowan, Utah, lately, and that’s the place she feels she belongs.
After getting her official marital launch from Kody Brown, Meri moved into her household’s house, which she changed into a B&B, Lizzie’s Heritage Inn.
Two years into her recent begin in Utah, Meri is opening up about dwelling in Flagstaff.
Throughout an interview with PEOPLE, Meri admitted there was “no level” staying within the city the place her ex-husband and his spouse nonetheless reside.
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When requested whether or not she misses Flagstaff, Meri didn’t mince phrases.
Meri doesn’t miss Flagstaff one bit
“Nope. By no means,” Meri Brown confessed about not lacking Flagstaff.
Though Meri known as Flagstaff a “stunning” metropolis, she admitted to not making pals there.
As for why she didn’t join with anybody in Flagstaff, Meri advised the publication, “It simply wasn’t for me. I moved there as a result of the household did.”
“It was not ever on my radar, ‘Oh, Flagstaff, Arizona. We should always reside there,’” she added.
Now that Meri is established in Parowan, she stresses that discovering one’s place is necessary.
“Particularly on this age that we’re in,” Meri shared. “We’re all in our 50s; it’s like, ‘Simply discover your home. Do what makes you cheerful.’”
Transferring into her B&B ‘made sense’ to Meri
Meri made the logical determination to return to Utah.
“[It] made sense to me as a result of I already owned the home,” Meri defined about her B&B.
Though her former sister wives and a few Sister Wives viewers might have felt that Meri bought her household heirloom as an “escape route,” she says that was not the case.
As a substitute, Meri defined that she dreamt of getting her household house again within the household, “so it made sense on the time.”
It simply didn’t make sense for Meri to remain in Flagstaff.
“Why hold dwelling in a city the place I don’t know anyone? I don’t have pals?” Meri reasoned. “Kody and I are fully separating. I’m not going to be part of the household. There’s no level in me being there.”
Meri’s B&B is presently closed for some ‘TLC’
It’s been about two years since Meri moved out of Flagstaff and again to Parowan.
Meri’s household house, which is 154 years previous, is presently closed for renovations.
As she introduced on Instagram in August 2024, the B&B “is in want of some tlc,” so common visits have been briefly suspended whereas the historic landmark receives updates.
Kody helped Meri transfer again to Utah
This season on Sister Wives, Kody helped his ex-wife transfer into Lizzie’s Heritage Inn as a part of her “severance package deal.”
The transfer wasn’t as minimize and dry as Meri Brown anticipated.
For starters, issues bought awkward within the transferring van when Kody and Meri had been pressured towards one another in shut quarters.
Then, Kody turned overcome with emotion as he bid her adieu, sobbing as he acknowledged the “finish of an period.”
Whereas Kody bawled his eyes out, Meri remained calm and later questioned why he was so emotional—particularly after he made it clear he had needed nothing to do together with her for years.
Throughout a confessional, Meri puzzled, “So why this emotion?”
“I’m floored by [Kody’s reaction],” Meri added. “I don’t know what to do with this.”
Season 19 of Sister Wives airs on Sundays at 10/9c on TLC.
