Living Isolated Overseas..... Has Advantages

Has it's advantages too........

"Living in Rio Verde was in a very real sense like living in another world. The “real” world of change - of riots; revolutions, politics, and business - only began to begin in Esmeraldas at the end of that twenty-five miles of bench and ocean that separated the two places. It was, for me at any rate, in many ways a profound experience to be isolated from that world that we had been taught to believe was the real one and to be absorbed into a world every bit as complicated but whose main realities were the tides, the planting seasons, the winter storms, the betrayals of neighbors, and the fight to stay alive."
(Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle. Moritz Thomsen)