kaz@ivebeenframed.com (Kaz) wrote in message news:<365fcc52.0307120703.6357892c@posting.google.com>...
> worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:<73fde4f0.0307101837.1672d6e4@posting.google.com>...
> > kaz@ivebeenframed.com (Kaz) wrote in message news:<365fcc52.0307091917.64212e27@posting.google.com>...
> > 
> > > As a matter of fact, honestly, I rather envy to being an expat. Living
> > > in one's own home city, or even in his own country for his whole
> > > lifetime is often too stressful. Same faces, homogeneous culture, same
> > > kind of people that he has to belong to all his life. It's too boring.
> > > It often urges me to take off to someplace new to me.
> > 
> > I'm a firm believer that everyone should spend at least a year of
> > their life away from home, ideally in another country. They should
> > live so far away that it's nearly impossible to come home within a
> > day, regardless of whether or not they have the means to do so.
> > 
> What about joining the service?

That works. Actually, I think the Bush administration proposed a
program of mandatory civil service for people (young adults), either
military, Peace Corps, or something along those lines. Great idea,
IMHO.

John W.