Thank you.. My only perspective was to cover as much as possible of this. Since, you are sharing something personal here. But, I was glad to read "Interesting question".

I have not had that experience before. I traveled as a tourist and came back. Never tried this before. So, I know that others might experienced this and could say something personal about it. But, I know that this is the sort of thing that is not comparable.
What I mean by that is, one could choose to be somewhere else at times. But, cannot really tell if he stayed in his place for the same amount of time, it would be better for him (as no one can be in two different places at the same time).
There is a nice saying about it, it goes something like this: "We might not be able to tell if our choice was the best one. But, we need to work on making it a right one".