People asked me why moving out. i said: to see how it is like - Living elsewhere. (i was thinking only geography then, but.. happened culturally it is even farther). They did not accept that as answer.
Fiancee came (after 18 months instead of 3, thanks to usa bombing belgrade). We stood in oz further 1.5 years. Got a newborn baby.. and Then decided to call it over and move back home - kids needs dense society to become a person, and there wasn't much of it in oz. Or so we thought was the reason.
People asked me why moving back. i said: to see how it is like - Going back. They did not accept that as answer.
10 years later, 2012, one day i went to oz again. Trying to fullfill that then-paused dream. Took me 3 months to grasp the new (harsher) reality - which was actually an uncovered unglittered same old one - and one day, after watching Sacrifice by Tarkovsky, abandoned the oz-dream alltogether. It's not worth it, it's really like living upside-down - for me. Or inside-out.. Cultural differences are staggering. Moved back home.
(same) People asked me why. Answer - i am choosing where to live, by my standards. Not somebody elses. After being to quite few places@continents.. would try only 1-2 of those. The rest.. aren't for me. People would nod. Maybe we all got wiser..
My advice to young people: go around the world early enough. Check Different places.. Culturally. Find what your values are. Decide where you fit best and want to be. Who to become. May check Hofstede's cultural dimensions [0] below - but remember some values stay, some change, and you do not know which, beforehand. Values are like a skyline.. the further you go, the more you see and understand which is really high/low and which is just a hill/puddle.
A friend told me that there's an inscription on some Amsterdam bridge which can be translated as "coming back is not the same as staying". It is really so.
And.. Money are the lubricant, NOT the fuel. Wish/motivation is the fuel.
[0] https://www.theculturefactor.com/country-comparison-tool