Leaving (~Western) Europe. The last year made it clear that I'm not compatible with its values and priorities, and I'm now going to live in places that aren't living museums.
It's freed up a lot of mental space which has been phenomenal.
It's freed up a lot of mental space which has been phenomenal.
Can you elaborate?
Was it the food, the politics, the work culture? Other?
The short version is that the last year's politics have uprooted a lot of beliefs I held formerly that are common in Europe (some examples: stereotyping Americans in certain ways, having the acceptable view on the Democrat/Republican divide, assuming that society will react proportionally to threats and consider the health of all people, assuming that Europe cares at all about what effects its policies have on less well-off parts of the world, the Russian government being evil and the sort of general European take of Europe being the "pinnacle of civilisation").
Happy to elaborate more in private if you're interested, but not in public (similarly, another effect of the last year is that I stopped using social media like Twitter).
You might want to pay attention to Navalny's expose and the litany of assassinations they've been clearly implicated in...
I don't know how you can dispute them literally catching the FSB agent admitting it: https://youtu.be/ibqiet6Bg38?t=349