Put a jackass in a crate in Boston ship it to LA, open the crate, and you still have a jackass.

I often thought that if I changed my location to a new town, city, state or country, that things would be different.  And so I tried what is known as the "geographical cure."  Things sometimes worked better at first but they always seemed to get back to the same rotten situation I had moved to get away from.  When I heard this saying at a meeting, that little light bulb went on in mind mind.  The expression helped me touinderstand why that would always be the case.