Simple really.... the majority probably don't.
People stay down for a lot of reasons. Family ties. Mortgage commitments. Loyalty. Work contracts. A lot of people dream of jacking it all in while at the same time, the idea of losing everything they've worked so hard and risking it all on a dangerous frontier is a wonderful chilling effect. Education for the kids? Contact with relatives. Looking after the Granny.... a thousand perfectly good and decent reasons to limit experiences of Fenspace to a 2 week holiday, and maybe a Popular Mechanics special every now and then.
I could snark over the US education system having much the same effect, but I won't.
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People stay down for a lot of reasons. Family ties. Mortgage commitments. Loyalty. Work contracts. A lot of people dream of jacking it all in while at the same time, the idea of losing everything they've worked so hard and risking it all on a dangerous frontier is a wonderful chilling effect. Education for the kids? Contact with relatives. Looking after the Granny.... a thousand perfectly good and decent reasons to limit experiences of Fenspace to a 2 week holiday, and maybe a Popular Mechanics special every now and then.
I could snark over the US education system having much the same effect, but I won't.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?