[EGreg]

Being a big fish in a small pond has its perks. You can go for vacation to developing countries such as Thailand and live like a king. People would be willing to do whatever you want for money. Steak dinners would be $5. Obviously the internet lets you have much richer clients in Western countries subsidizing your lifestyle in developing countries.

But leaving all your family and friends behind to live there might not be for everyone. There was recently a nice article posted about relationships being more valuable to human beings than ambition: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/relationsh...

Not to mention, for a guy like me who is Jewish, and whose family would like to see him marry someone Jewish as well, moving to a country where there are very few Jews would just be decreasing my chances of starting a family. That's why it's good to travel for long periods when you're younger.

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There are Jews living in other parts of the world: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_India * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/bnei-menashe-move-t...

[EGreg]

While that's true -- Jews live everywhere around the world -- it's not like lots of Jews live in places with low income. Realistically I'd probably meet someone in a city:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_urban_area...