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As an alternative, being beaten up by some inadequate jerk(s).

That's a minor thing. But the fact is, ten years ago, right after graduating from school, it didn't seem like anything special, because you rarely had free will in life.
Now, of course, the idea of moving for a few years to a rundown shack with peasants, carrying out the orders and desires of random weirdos with a double-digit ISQ seems like complete madness and, in some ways, even perversion.

And why did only the best country get the worst girl?

Isn't Great Britain the worst country on the list?