Talk:Pinkie Pride/@comment-24615846-20140319173521/@comment-10390252-20140324135054

You could make endless speculation about this. Some wonder if Pinkie is a runaway (although Maud not mentioning it makes that unlikely). The fact that the Rock Farm is apparently far enough to make it easier to travel there by train rather than by hoof makes it unlikely that Pinkie had simply been visiting with her family (unless the Pies used to have a stall in the farmers' market in Ponyville).

My guess is that, recognising Pinkie's natural skill with making sweets and pastries, the Pies brought her to Ponyville to apprentice her to either a baker or a confectioner. She impressed the Cakes the most and the rest is history.