LogFAQs > #931271742

Family members or friends/neighbors or whatever are entitled to alert the police if you have gone missing out of the blue and it strikes them as odd. Obviously, in their minds, something might have actually happened to you - you could be ill, abducted, dead, etc. And welfare checks can always be done on you which can lead to a variety of events. But in the end, if everything you're doing is above board, no, you won't be arrested, but you will be sought out. Which in today's world honestly makes it more ideal in my mind to tie up any loose ends in your personal life before changing it up drastically. Preferably over a phone conversation so they know it's actually you. At that point, pretty much regardless of your reasoning, if you're free of commitments, people will have to leave you be.

Pre-internet era, yeah, if you were a guy, then seriously nobody would care at all. It would just be assumed you decided to up and move. Used to be a fairly common thing.