I will attest to this being quite poor advice. I think the OP is well aware that a cheap exotic vacation and a scooter are not going to fill the gap he feels.
On the other hand, locales like the one recommended are full of first-world young adults testing the theory that a change of location will fix what ails them with markedly mixed results.
Travel can be great, but travel is at best a sort of emotional palliative care for a person in the OPs situation as I understand it.