Please visit a central European county and maybe live there for a while. Then return or stay if you like, it's just that you experience first hand that countries can run in a different way. Not at all perfect but different.
From my personal perspective the most shocking thing is this hustle mentality. I think it's rare here. Some entrepreneurs have it (they get indoctrinated by US wealth influencers / Tony Robbins etc) but I believe most people here are pretty okay with their own situation, they don't have to worry about healthcare and even if we lose our job it's usually not an immediate disaster, even without large savings.
So we tend to worry less about the present and more about the future. Climate change, environmental damage, right wing movements, privatization of healthcare, enshittification etc. Still all very bad and cause to worry but it's less about our present survival, more about keeping things stable.
A bit inland in Dalmatia (Croatia) seems very cheap and you could have at least have your own wine and olives. Land directly at the coast is super expensive.
I've seen that. Used for customer service history AND planning with 3-digit week numbers (the first digit is the last digit of the year) and a lot of macros. Guess who had to fix the macros in 2020 without changing the idiotic 3-digit week numbers?
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