Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician. "
Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.