21st June 2010, 1:48 PM
That's great. Not everyone is in such a position. Some people live basically week by week. Others have long term commitments they can't break (careers, families, mortgages). More still have all their connections in one place, and leaving will be basically wandering into the woods without anything to go on.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)