I think I wrote about it here before, Bulgaria feels like the freest place I've ever been. Having left the country at age of 14, lived in Turkey, Germany, Belgium and UK I still feel the best when in Bulgaria.
This is because, when I step on the motherland soil I don't feel like I have mission or that I'm part of a large community. Instead, it feels like it just exists on its own and its up to me to figure out what what I want to do. I can see that things are happening, people are up to something but I don't feel the flow - if you know what I mean.
Especially in Turkey, being a collectivist society, is very limiting because it makes me feel like I must have an explanation for everything I do. It's like everyone has a well defined persona and everything is done in certain informal way and you don't have even the slightest wiggle room. Things change for you only as much as you can change your persona. For example, if you manage to get into a good school you suddenly enter in a new space with a different wiggle room. You don't feel the world much, all you can operate in is the society and you can't get out of it.
Germany, I find it interesting. It made feel like entering a well oiled machine and there's a strong flow but also opportunities. You are still free, it's not like Turkey but unlike Bulgaria you need to pay close attention on how stuff works and do it that way.
UK, feels closer to Turkey in many ways - it feels like you have a mission and place in the society. The wiggle room is much better than Turkey though, and unlike Germany you are allowed to mess with how stuff works and propose changes. It's more goal oriented than process oriented in that regard but you definitely feel boundaries of your place in the society. Also, in UK I felt like at the edge of the civilisation and I was allowed to reason why things are done the way they are done(in contrast with Turkey, where it's extremely energy consuming to question anything).
Belgium was a bit like Bulgaria: You don't feel like you have a mission but unlike Bulgaria it felt like a lot is going on but the flows are rigid and hard to get into the stream.