Some thoughts:
Wise men did not warn Joseph to flee. An Angel of God did this after the wise men left.
So Joseph fled.
It never says Christ was 2 years old when the wise men arrived at His doorstep.
It says, that after Herod realized his wise men weren't going to return at all, it had been two years since Christ's birth.
Matthew does not say that Joseph and Mary are from Bethlehem.
(He does say that Joseph wanted to put Mary away privily, and I would not be surprised if they left wherever they were FROM [where people knew her, and knew she was unwed/pregnant] and went to a town where people wouldn't know of her condition)
Luke states:
39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
But it doesn't say how long it took to do all the things, what all the things were, and where they were currently dwelling before their return.
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