I'm not running away from anything. No kids, no bad relationships, no ex-wives, no criminal record, no debilitating use of narcotics....the only thing I'm running away from is the small-town mentality of my increasingly effed-up country. China doesn't feel like jial. I always thought it felt like following the rabbit down the hole and drinking the bottle with the label "Drink Me"...the bottle in this case being some kind of rot-gut baijiu.
Though I understand the Train Robber analogy, I fear I can't be said to have much in common with him.