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  • (Score: 1) by mce on Thursday December 25, @12:53PM

    by mce (2811) on Thursday December 25, @12:53PM (#1427798)

    You don't necessarily have to move far, however.

    After a roughly 35 year gap, I now live just 21 km from my childhood home and only 18 km from where I lived aged 2-4, and I also regularly go shopping in the town where I was born. And yet a different language from a different main language group dominates in the village that I call home today. There are more cultural differences between those two places, than between where I was born and the all places where I lived during the intermediate 35 years.

    I do agree that people should move around and see the world if they can afford it or their employer pays for it (I've been lucky enough to see 19 countries on 3 continents and still plan on adding a few more in retirement), but sometimes the cheap and easy solution is laying on one's doorstep.