You've just explained in under two minutes why travel is so cool. I didn't leave my home country until I was 21. After that I travelled a lot and lived abroad for many years. It opened my eyes, taught me to feel part of something bigger. Now I'm back in the UK, we've got Brexit, austerity, Conservatives in power, and it's like - ugh, how did we get here? But that's them, not I. And that's what I love about this blockchain business: it's bring us closer to having the world I would like it to be. It feels like an avatar of the inexorable march of progress towards global humanity. You can vote for this or hate that, but you can't hold back the tide.
Enjoy Paris my friend. It's a wonderful city of amazing people. Bon Voyage!