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My name is Josh Rachites, I am your host, and on today's podcast I continue the series on why I left the USA.

And I'm doing this series in order of least important reasons to most important reasons, but I think today's reason is going to be probably

the most universal. And although in my own mind it's kind of the least important of my three big reasons it's that doesn't make

it unimportant and I'm not actually sure that that ranking is true because after all

we can lay out the idea that were logical creatures and making careful decisions but at the end of the day

there's a little bit of whimsy and just moving on a lark in all of us.

And in terms of how and why I left the United States, there was no long-term plan.

The reasons number two and one that I am going to mention were definitely part of my longer-term plan. But at the end of the day,

they had been in my thinking for some years, and the reason I actually left was just that it was

a convenient time to leave.

So let me not bury the lead anymore.

The reason I have left the United States

and still have lived abroad is just a desire for adventure and interest and a desire to be prepared for opportunity in the world.

I see those two things as being very related which is why I have joined them. Life should be

interesting. Life should be as much of an adventure as you desire. I'm not

into the idea that you know that quote-quote

normal life is boring and to be escaped from etc. But at the end of the day

at every the end of every year at the end of every month at the end of every decade, at the end of every month, at the end of every decade, I think we should be able to look back on the last month or year or decade and have some interesting stories.

I don't think that every day is going to be an adventure in and of itself.

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