[danneu]

Along with the answer to your question that someone may provide you, perhaps also change, adventure, and rocking the boat? Mixing a little bit of life experience in with entrepreneurial endeavors? I'm only 23, but those reasons compel me.

[8bitpal]

Very true.

Would it compel to leave permanently though? I left my country of birth for the reasons you stated but I guess somewhere in the back of my head I see myself returning one day.

[danneu]

I don't think I could leave permanently. And I can't see myself rescinding my American passport. Very circumstantial extremes.

Even travel writer Paul Theroux, having spent most of his life abroad, said that nothing will ever replace home and its familiarity.