How many vacations have you "planned" with your partner knowing full well the entire time that you would never come close to taking them?
I was lucky...two months after graduation, I went on active duty in the Army. My first tour after the Officers Basic Course was in Germany. For four years I lived in the Mosel River town of Traben-Trarbach, and I was a 4 hour drive from majestic cities as Amsterdam, Munich, and Hamburg.
I also enjoyed the pleasure of spending a week at the NATO school in Oberammergau, one of the most beautiful towns you could ever see.
I regret not taking a trip to Italy, hope to make it over there in a couple of years. But I'm not spending any time looking at mansions in Zillow.