Imagine you live in a country where there's no where else to go for miles around, and you're young, and you want to see the world - then it might make a little more sense :-)

It is really common though. It's referred to as your OE (overseas experience) and a lot of people do it. Many just to Australia, but the Uk and Canada are very common too. Mostly because there are reciprocal relationships with those countries that make it easier.

> Imagine you live in a country where there's no where else to go for miles around, and you're young, and you want to see the world.

And you end up seeing crappy suburbs from a crappy suburban train 3 hours a day, 15 hours a week (that's like 2 working days a week).

Well, no, I cycle through the countryside to get on a 15 minute train, but thanks for your positive outlook :-)

And that's once you put aside all the countries I've visited and experiences I've come to enjoy from my base in London over the last 15 years.

And at the weekend hop an easyJet to a European city. Do that every 2 weeks for 5 years and you still won't have been everywhere you can go.

I moved here to get out of my comfort zone