Do it.
I slogged it out for years while my friends went to live in London, Scotland, Indo. I knew that when I got that airline job I would see it all for myself and the sacrifice would be worth it.
Well I never got into QF and I have kids and a mortgage. It'll be years now before I have the freedom to get away. But when we have friends over they still talk with my wife about the places they went and the people they met, and their careers are shaped by the time they worked and lived over there.
Go. Go now.