I might finish my associates elsewhere because I severely underperformed while also taking many extraneous courses. I started attending fewer courses, dropping more, and getting worse grades mainly for attendance reasons, but I expect this trend to reverse when I leave home. Curiosity alone drove me to study hard, so the knowledge is there. Would these be reasonable circumstances to transfer and “redo” my associates? Either I restart my associates halfway through and get a better bachelor’s program, or I’m stuck with a subpar bachelor’s program because they assume my mind is deteriorating.
You should speak with the people at your own CC about options for grade recovery. If you need financial aid, you also should have a chat with the financial aid office about your progress toward your degree. All of your coursework wherever it has been taken counts toward that.
You may be happier and more productive at a different CC, and that could well lead to an improved GPA. However, you need to remember that when you do apply to transfer to the bachelor’s program, you will need to send all of your CC transcripts, not just the newer better ones.
Your transcript cannot be rewritten. If you perform poorly in a course, that grade will always show up on your transcript. What you can change is the narrative around your grade. You do this by starting to perform better. Schools like to see that you recover from poor grades, so by performing better you are showing them that you can do better. When you apply for a bachelors degree or transfer CC address the poor grades head on. Tell them the external factors that influenced your performance and give them examples of how you have started to turn things around.