Phil really did make a dumb decision leaving Connecticut, his dad taught him how to lift weights apparently, he would probably be disappointed in seeing the lifestyle Phil leads, if he would have stayed then at the very least he could have told him to stay in shape and not end up looking like a man in their 40's looking like someone in their late 50's/early 60's even.
I'm sure that him moving to Washington wasn't only due to chasing status proving that he "made it" (instead of the losers in CT that choose to live in a shitty city), it was about him leaving behind all the people he destroyed relationships with (his ex-friends) and also his parents so they stop nagging him and he can do whatever he wants. If you put yourself in a mindset of a insecure manchild with something to prove it makes sense, he wants to get away from everyone who is either checking his ego(his parents) or who he was a dick too(his ex-friends).
I almost forgot about Leanna, I'm sure that this manipulative narcissist moved to the other side of the country so he could remove Leanna from all of her friends and family so she has no support group (no one to fall back on) if something goes wrong with him, so she is 100% depenDENT on him, and to add to this she told her that having a job is schoopid because when you work everyone will screw you over like him who was the best employee in the world but was fired for no reason for all the jobs he ever had , and she also shouldn't get an education because:
A. He can't pay for it!!
B. Those universities are a scam, education is stupid because if you are white you won't be able to go to a good university like it happened to him (and Panda Lee is NOT ASIAN, so she must be white) , he was going to go to Harvard and wasn't accepted because he is 98% polish, 1% italian and 1% african (I don't know if the 1% african is correct since 23 and me always says everyone is part african).
So he moved her away from friends and family so she has no one to fall back on if things go wrong and no one IRL to talk about how abnormal their relationship is or what a retard Phil is, and she has no money and no education (she didn't even finish high school either), manipulative narcissist basically.