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>> A lot of people online say that travel makes you a better person.

Probably every experience you have can make you a better person, it doesn't need to be travel.

I used to travel a ton for work and fun (there was a year where I hit 6 continents in a 10-month window) but spending the last 9 months in a one-bedroom apartment with my wife and our newborn is no less mind opening.

In fact, like everything, travel gets old. At some point you know that you "got it" - you can be dropped in a random point on the earth and make something out of it - and yet you may not know how to be at one place for a long time (I am learning that now.)

Also, it makes things less special. In a way I am jealous of people who are dreaming of going to Paris and then experience it for the first time.

You do you - save your money, invest in relationships around you, learn things on line, be a good child and parent. If that's "all" you have to show against someone who has been everywhere but doesn't have what you have, you're ahead.



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