As a 70yo who is retired I hesitate to make a serious comment BUT what is the deal in $$$, housing, schooling?
As a young guy, yeah, sure, loadsa fun but you get to thirtysomething and think 'where's my life going'. Do I want to marry a Thai girl? Do I want to marry a girl from my own culture and religion? (which could be any one of hundreds - gotcha there, racist inventors!)
I left the Merchant Navy (which I actually liked) because I asked myself these questions when I was 23yo.
Thanks to Nikita Kruschev and the Yanks, who couldn't play nicely together, I got to be a pilot. I'd have been happy to be a steam turbine driver in a power station but I sure as hell wasn't going back to sea and leaving wife and kids at home. Yeah, so I went to GF for 4yrs - but that wasn't planned
Greeks bearing gifts - Think carefully.