Why do all humans follow the same path?

I've been wondering why all of us people from wealthy countries decide to stay here.
I'm 14 and think that later in my life I'll go to a cheap place like Jamaica and just chill and smoke joints.
You may ask:Where you going to get the money?
I'll start my life by making some money and saving up to buy a house over there and i'll get some friends to come around with me.
and i'll have my own plantation of course.
So for all you adults out there I'd like to ask you why you stay in rich countries and have the same old life as everybody else?

Because Jamaica is a dirt hole, other than a couple tourist spots. America has everything I could ever want, to live in. I'll visit other countries, for sure. That's it.

Because I haven't saved up enough money to run away to India again yet.

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Originally Posted by theoipod

I've been wondering why all of us people from wealthy countries decide to stay here.
I'm 14 and think that later in my life I'll go to a cheap place like Jamaica and just chill and smoke joints.
You may ask:Where you going to get the money?
I'll start my life by making some money and saving up to buy a house over there and i'll get some friends to come around with me.
and i'll have my own plantation of course.
So for all you adults out there I'd like to ask you why you stay in rich countries and have the same old life as everybody else?

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This is the reason pot is illegal, it makes people stupid. There's more to life than chilling and smoking joints. America>Jamaica.

You must consider some of the things you seem to be taking for granted in your country that raise the cost of living. ie., Police, fire, paramedics, paved roads, clean water, doctors, hospitals,libraries,phone/internet, electricity....

It's no fun being an illegal alien...

I think that if i moved to another country i would never feel like i fitted in..
I would like to bye another house abroad and spend maybe 2 months there at a time but i would always want a house in england so i can always go 'home'

You know what they say...
It's a nice place to visit but ya wouldn't want to live there.
Even though American health care is overpriced, I like knowing it's there.
And even though my family can be a bit much at times, they're good to have only a couple hours away.

Jamaica is a very poor, and very dangerous place to live. It wouldn't be my choice place to live.

I don't mind where I am at all. I have no complaints.

ACTUALLY
you're right.. you just don't realize you can do that when you retire....if you were smart with your money. and perhaps if you haven't married yet.

If i retire alone....i will travel all over the world and "just chill and smoke joints" with the locals... but maybe learn about different cultures... and expand my knowledge with different views of life.....
there's nothing like talking to a wise man and learning from him:hippy:

until then, I have to somehow find a way to make enough money to do all that and keep being as happy as i can...

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Originally Posted by theoipod

So for all you adults out there I'd like to ask you why you stay in rich countries and have the same old life as everybody else?

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We, young ones, have the energy and the vigour that adult/old people lacks. Im sure they stick to the "same old life" cause its safe. Its very known to them, so no surprises. Old people lacks the desire for adventure, for new things... they learn to use their energy to care about useless things... Did you ever realized how many petty and useless things the adults care about? So, with the mind full of this things, they dont realize the boredom of their routine lifes, and settle down. As one of my uncles said "Life is working for paying bills, watching tv and the weekend's beer". Poor fellow... i pity him whole-heartedly... maybe his life is that, empty, meaningless... but mine will not be. Life is far greater than anything that people do... the world is a mystery, we never will understand it all... we never will even know it all... i refuse to waste my life, the only i have, doing what my uncle said (and what almost every adult would say too).
T.Leary was very right when said "Never trust anyone older than 30" (or something like this)
Long life for us young... we are the future of the world... :thumbsup:

I plan to visit Jamaica one day, however, I intend to live in Amsterdam.

That's just too unreasonable dude.....

Us young 'uns need to go out and, as Wooderson from Dazed and Confused says, just keep L-I-V-I-N. Middle class Canadians lead a boring, empty existence for the most part.

I hear ya dude. Jamaica? No. But I do like the idea of moving somewhere cheaper and freer than America. I deally I'd save a enough money to build a self sufficient house somewhere in a poor but promising country and "chill [there] and smoke joints"

i went to canada several years ago(close to 10), and thought it was a neat area. i'd love to go back there.

cause Iam american

You like what your parents brought u up to like. Sort of, of course there are peole who are different, but I find most people who are raised in a certain area will always live in a certain type of area. Like I know im moving to the city soon, but I will prolly end up in a house like the one I live in now. And I would be happy with that.

Cause there no place on earth like Atlanta,Georiga.