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For years the image of developers has been the living in their parent's basement, never sees the light of day, lives on sodas and pizza.
For many, I am sure this might actually be accurate (I know at least one person who precisely matches this description - he used to write video codecs for fun).
For the rest of us I am sure travel and enlightenment (and occasionally family) are just as important. I have worked and lived in five countries and visited many more. Here are my lists:
Lived in: England, Sweden, Germany, France, USA
Additionally visited: Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Scotland, Wales, Tunisia, Barbados, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Crete, Corfu, Hong Kong (deployed - didn't see the city), Luxemburg, Lichtenstein, Mexico, Canada and sundry US States.
Bucket list: New Zealand, Iceland, Russia (maybe), India, Hong Kong (now it's no longer British), Norway, Denmark, The Moon (low-gravity retirement home). ...and Japan.
Where have you worked/lived/visited/been deployed?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 27-Mar-19 13:31pm.
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Lived in: UK
Worked in: UK
Bucket list: Get the kids off my lawn
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Get the kids off my lawn
Whose kids?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I have lived/visited/worked in 10 countries so far. Now that I am in Netherlands, that number will increase a lot due to open borders. 
I still have not been in South America so any country from there would be fun!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I live in the Netherlands and I've been to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia (Sint-Petersburg), Estonia, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary (Budapest), Slovenia, France, Italy, Spain (Barcelona), Madeira (does that count as Portugal?), Tunisia (Tunis), Malta, Greece, Israel, Kenya (where the giraffes are and the zebraaaas, forget Norway!), Indonesia, Canada, Costa Rica, Suriname and Cuba.
Not in that order.
Now that I'm counting them that's one country a year on average since I'm born (I'm 31) 
And, my favorite country of them all, Germany!
It's beautiful, it has mountains, forests and plenty of castles and, huge bonus, it's relatively close to home!
Perfect for a couple of days out of the house
According to TripAdvisor I've seen 18% of the world...
Japan and New Zealand are on my bucket list.
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Oops! I forgot Japan for my bucket list.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I am a Jet Setter. Ok maybe 85 octane.
Southern California in the 80s when tech was king and money flowed like water.
Summit County Colorado where there is Moose, Elk and Bear and just enough tech to keep us above water.
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I did became a computer addict in my parents house (no basement, but used the most remote room and the attached - closed - balcony)...
Lived only in Hungary and Israel so far, but visited in England (London only), France (south, along the Spanish border), West and East Germany, Italy (Milan), Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria...
I do not plan to visit places abroad for now... There are a lot of places nearby that I want to see (and show to the kids) before that...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Environment friendly too, all that kerosine guzzling flying around the globe is not good at all 
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lived in: England, Germany, Canada (4 months), Northern Ireland, technically Australia but I was delivering software to someone in an airport.
Visted: Italy, Czech republic, Spain & islands, Portugal
Bucket List: St Petersburg, Caribbean, Various places in the USA, Japan, China, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and other nordic regions
I have lived in various places in Germany but that was due to my father being in the armed forces and got to see Berlin before the wall came down, as the wall came down and immediatley after. But would love to visit again.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Forogar wrote: Where have you worked/lived/visited/been deployed?
I've lived in the USA, Venezuela, Mexico and Bolivia and visited Aruba, Ecuador, Colombia, Suriname, Brazil, Argentina,Peru, Canada,England, The Netherlands,Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and likely a few other places.
I have a trip to Malaysia in the works later this year and will return to Venezuela as soon as the situation there stabilizes.
In addition, besides taking time off when
I had a stroke, I completed my PHD, sdo I've managed to get out and stay busy.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Oh, this game looks interesting.
Lived in: New Zealand, New York, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne
Visited: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Hong Kong, China, Fiji, India, Croatia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Germany, Italy, England, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Russia (trans-Siberian train trip), Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina (5 months in South America, 10,000kms on a motorbike) and Antarctica.
Haven't been to Africa yet, and would love to spend more time in Europe. Problem with living back in NZ is everywhere is so far away.
Oh, and I've seen NZ on bucket lists - drop me a note when you've got plans to come visit.
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Lived in: United Kingdom, Israel & Japan.
Worked in: Israel, Japan (I'm not counting business trips  )
Worked with: Israelis, Japanese, Chinese, Americans, Brits, Indians, Russians, and too many other nationalities to count.
Visited: United Kingdom (England, Scotland), France, Switzerland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Denmark, Holland, Japan, Hong Kong, China, United States, South Africa, Canada, Germany.
Bucket list: Anywhere off the planet (unlikely, given the current spaceflight technology  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Oops, I forgot to add Lichtenstein. to my visited list. I would have missed it if I'd blinked and hadn't had to stop at the traffic lights. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Lived in Catalonia (Spain).
Worked in Spain, England, Denmark, Brazil, Italy, USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, China.
Visited France, Andorra, Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Rep. dominicana, Mexico.
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Quite an international league of gentlemen!
But hey, I worked abroad too for a while ... in Belgium 
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I don't travel a lot, but I do outdoors activities like mountain biking and trail running
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Sadly I'm one of the guys they made up that cliche about. I pack flares and beef jerky when I have to go to the grocery store, just in case.
Explorans limites defectum
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Hey @OriginalGriff, from the makers of your favourite Imaging software.
AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro[^] is free today but you'll pay for updates later. You can pay to get lifetime upgrades for a fee, but I won't mention that as when I do I get visits from men in Mankini's telling me not to post that type of stuff. So just keep that last part quite.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I have it already - it does what it says on the tin!
Thanks for the heads up though. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Gparted is free every day. Run it from a liveCD or USB stick 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It strikes me that whereas physical, on-site servers offer more bangs for less buck year by year; the cost of cloud servers is only likely to rise as people become tethered to a particular service provider.
If I'm right on that (and I may well not be, I really haven't had any great deal of exposure to the cloud), that would suggest that at some point there will be a massive re-migration from the cloud back to the server room.
What are the thoughts of the more enlightened?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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There's another issue at play as well: security and liability.
A large part of the expense of running cloud services is the expense of securing it (for the provider), and the potential for liability for breaches to resident systems.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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And that's part of what worries me about the whole cloud thing: what's going to disappear during the first cost-cutting exercise? Yes: the stuff you can't see being used ... until you wish you still had it.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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