values are, so in moving places, cultures, here is the opportunity to refine these values. One writer said cultural exchange should be a requisite -- yes,but it is only available to the priveleged Growing up in a third world country taught me that what we have materially, being able to share coffee, is not what determines happiness. Travel and different country experiences can only affect us in limited ways. I moved country at the age of nine and missed past friends and places -- but it was a family shift which also deepened all our awareness and undertanding and acceptance of differences. I also did university in another country -- again eye-opening -- and decades later am still in touch in modern tech ways with friends from those various places. I moved away from my family, and some of them moved to other countries with marriage -- but we remain connected and talk and visit when possible. When I am back with friends we just take up as if there was little time lost -- but we love sharing the experiences. I have now spent two thirds of my life in African countries and one third in a developed country. I have gained an additional citizenship, and widened my life circle of friends, understand each of the cultues I've learned from, and refined who I am -- both as a result of the changes geographically, as well as my choices around how to live in each locality. I used to