This doesn't offend me. It does hurt me deeply though, because I know all of it is true. Greed, corruption and ego have ruined any type of potential this country had to be one of the greatest on the continent. We have the natural resources, we have the fertile earth. But the collective mentality, which is even more amplified in the government, has brought everything to shit.

You think those two years were bad. Try living here your whole life. I make one step forward, and some corrupt fuckery centered around others egotistical desires to gain more for themselves sets me back 5 steps. If it weren't for our parents who are well off and financially responsible, @tanjakolader wouldn't even have the means to get our own home, let alone rent one.

I'm not going to defend anything you said, because I mostly feel the same way. We may have more friends and family here in our own personal social bubble that make the experience better, but everything outside that bubble is potentially rotten and I know that.

I resonate with the feeling of wanting to leave as soon as possible, earning an honest living somewhere else to built myself and my partner up without random obstacles like greedy banks, corrupt politicians and the majority of our technological maturity down the drain. Tanja doesn't like it that much when I cuss at idiot citizens and politicians and the system itself, and that we'd be better of someplace else, but she's the optimistic one in the relationship, which balances out perfectly. 😅

My bad for tagging along on the rant train though. 🙃 Seemed like the perfect opportunity to let out my own steam to someone who won't feel insulted due to some misplace sense of patriotism.