> It sounds like you have a good support network of friends, family, or teachers that have enabled your work so far.

Far from it, Perhaps I might have given a wrong impression but I sort of realize why you might believe so, but let me share more details.

My teachers don't even teach the subject of computer science and I don't really have any friends who care about these topics, or for that matter, friends in general whether offline or even online for that matter.

I think I am not alone in that as the preparation for these topics like JEE and others have definitely made people lonely and its quite competitive, far from what should be expected at this age.

My family is imperfect (and imo every family is imperfect) but they love me and that's all that matters (and I love them!) and so they have been a really good support especially my extended family like my cousins and they all do care about me in their own ways so its really nice meeting them, and so to me the values of family are quite high.

> Is there not a sufficiently technical university locally that would allow you to remain connected with them?

The prospectus of jobs in local technical universities is simply close to zero. Enough that its not even an option, at best, I would select a college within more than 100 km's and probably more and so as such the family point becomes not much of a factor as such either way within my personal situation of being in a small town.

And actually, I wish to find good support network of friends and teachers who can actually support my work. I wish to grow! and so if that is something I am concerned with, in my situation, international colleges are actually a better option.

I am actually proud for many of my projects but that being said say for a project like htmlpipe, I have never told about this project to anyone literally anyone except on hackernews in which I share archive.org links to archive.is pages.

Now, within especially the last year, I must admit that I was struggling with some mental issues* which I am sure many might relate to including self worth, loneliness and so many others. These projects were a way for me to tackle those issues in my own way. They helped me become

Also I sometimes worry about my own employment, I am frugal so I don't even want quite large amounts of money but I just want to have enough respect within my family and although they love me, to actually gain respect, I would have to reach my potential (whatever that might be) and international colleges seem to be a decent bet at it.

I think I am doing fine now for what its worth :-D, Can't say good, can't say bad either but I exist :)

That being said, I am not entirely off to this notion of local colleges either as I would love to think it all through but with all of this as such, its best for me to evaluate more options as well!

Waiting for your comment/response to this and if there could be certain guidance with such info. Thanks for commenting and hopefully I can get some more value points on making decisions.

Edit: just wanted to say, Have a nice day sir!