Studies reveal that there is a close relationship between living abroad for some time and being creative. Five series of comparable individuals (groups differed in terms of level of education, job, age and certain personality traits) from various European countries and USA were studied in four different situations where being creative helped solve some problems. For all groups, the longer candidates had lived abroad and the more easily they solved their tasks. Having travelled extensively abroad did not help. The greater the effort to adapt to living abroad and the more easily were the tasks fulfilled. Subjects who had lived for a long time abroad and before attempting the four tasks had spent some time thinking back about their experience, were the most creative of all. Subjects who had never lived abroad and before the test had spent time imagining a life abroad gained nothing in creativity. We might not be able to always send our children abroad, but if we let them discover the solutions to their daily problems on their own this will help make them become more creative.