A lot of people encourage travel as it means so much to them, freedom, food, excitement. reading this, I thought you actually sound like my brother. He never wanted to travel away from home. I always assumed it was because we were kind of poor and flights, hotels, food, etc are expensive, but my Dad travelled all over the world when he was out of university, he really wanted my brother to see the world and so actually paid for my brother to travel (how lucky). My brother went around Europe. Sent home pictures of old buildings (his words), came home and said he is never leaving home again.