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I know someone who did that, within Europe. I say go for it, there are so many foreigners here in Portugal who come out because they love the climate, the relaxed atmosphere, the good food and company...I think it's great, just remember everywhere has its flaws. Portugal has a lot of bureaucracy and is sometimes really confusing but I think it's an ok place to live. I'd like to move to a different country for a period of time, just to try something different. I think that living in different contexts is a real eye opener and can help to broaden your perspectives on many different issues. The more you venture outside your comfort zone, the more you confirm who you are and what you want.
Word of advice: the best way to move somewhere abroad is to have a job where your company has a branch there, so you're on US salary but living in Europe. Or, save money for a while then come out and blow it all during your stay, if all you want to do is travel.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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