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by mclbdn 1608 days ago
Also the same here - I'm from a little village (~2000 people) in the Czech Republic.

I remember how (thanks to the internet) in the late 90's, I started listening to English music and playing video games without knowing any English.

A few years forward I had much better English than all of my classmates, but without putting any work in.

Then, I learned Spanish also online and moved to the Central America.

Anyway, I still wonder if my old classmates aren't better off in that small village since they don't really know about the huge and complicated world that's outside of their country. Having a few friends that live a few hundred meters from your house and working as a plumber seems liberating in a way.

Maybe ignorance is bliss?

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what drove you towards moving to central America?