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> I'll be chilling here in America, where the bottom 10% live as well as the top 10% do in developing countries.

Very true. But it's a perspective many people born and raised in the US lack. (Witness the HN thread a few days ago about the guy who retired at the age of 30, with people slamming him for living at a "poverty-level" income. Which of course means he lives better than 70% of the world's population.)

Long term travel (but not necessarily career-oriented work in foreign lands as this article suggests) is important to gaining that very important perspective.