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I recommend diverse and wide experience to include living in other and developing countries.
I do too. I grew up in a career military family, and lived in a number of foreign countries. Then I did my own military service. And I later traveled for work. Now we just vacation, sometimes abroad, for pleasure. Living in a foreign country can be enlightening.
When I was about ten years old my father was stationed at Subic Bay in the Philippines. We lived in a walled off, gated community off base, and even had a Filipino maid. I can remember standing on the seat of my bicycle, it leaning against the wall, and me then looking over that wall. Across the road that ran by the wall was a dump; and I saw kids my age picking through the dump for food or anything of value. I knew even then that I had it good compared to those kids.