‘Sister Wives’: Meri Brown Says She Doesn’t Miss Flagstaff ‘at All,’ ‘Never’ Made Friends There (Exclusive)

Sister Wives star Meri Brown is opening up about her recent big move from Flagstaff, Ariz., to Parowan, Utah.

During the Sunday, Nov. 17 episode of Sister Wives, Meri, 53, was preparing to make a move from Flagstaff to Parowan, where her bed and breakfast, Lizzie’s Heritage Inn, is located. PEOPLE caught up with her during an exclusive interview to ask about her big move, where she made some surprising comments about Flagstaff. 

“Nope. Not at all,” Brown bluntly tells PEOPLE when asked if she missed the city. “Flagstaff was—it’s beautiful. We all know I love the trees. Watch any season and you’ll know Meri loves the trees. And it’s beautiful. It really is.”

She adds, “I lived there for three or four years and I never made any friends there.”

Throughout the exclusive interview, Meri weighed in on several topics, including her dating life following the official end of her 32-year polyamorous marriage with Kody Brown and whether she’d change her surname. But when the Sister Wives alum was asked to elaborate further on why she didn’t make any friends during her time living in Flagstaff, she explained why the city never really felt like home. 

“It just wasn’t for me. I moved there because the family did,” she tells PEOPLE. “It was not ever on my radar, ‘Oh, Flagstaff, Arizona. We should live there.’ ”

She continued: “I think it’s really important to find your place, especially in this age that we’re in. We’re all in our 50s, it’s like, ‘Just find your place. Do what makes you happy.’ ” 

In the end, returning to Parowan, a place she once called home, felt like the right move for the reality star, who tells PEOPLE it “made sense to me because I already owned the house.” 

“Contrary to popular belief in my family, I did not buy it as an escape route,” she reveals to PEOPLE. “Just putting that out there. I did buy it because it was always a dream of mine to have my old family home back in the family, so it made sense at the time.” 

She adds: “Why keep living in a town where I don’t know anybody, I don’t have friends? Kody and I are completely separating. I’m not going to be a part of the family. There’s no point in me being there. And I had a house in Parowan, so let’s do that. And I gave myself two years to just settle and then figure stuff out. We’re coming up on two years.”

Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC and PEOPLE scored an exclusive first look at the Dec. 15 episode. The sneak peek clip features Kody telling his last remaining wife, Robyn Brown, that he wants to know that “God has been my wingman with you and that nobody can take you away.”