RE: I'm falling out of love with Armenia
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Sounds like an extreme version of Portugal to me, in many ways.
Follow your gut feeling. It it drains you more than it energizes you and you can't change it for the better, it sounds like it is indeed time to move on.
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It's disappointing because there are so many things I do love about this place, but the negatives are heavily overshadowing them. And the more you look around, the more it's evident that these struggles are not something the nation cannot grow out of, in fact, it should've already done so. It's purely a corruption thing. All the money clearly is pocketed. Even the side of development I mentioned: a lot of buildings don't even get finished. The money gets pocketed and "runs dry". Or they rely entirely on selling the apartments before they're finished to try to counter that. Since Armenians are generally poor, it doesn't work out.
Fountains throughout the city are performing beautiful patterns, yet water is turned off around midnight. You see how a lot of the logic just doesn't really work out here? Yet they insist on building more, increasing to the demand and supply they seem to be incapable of dealing with already. I spent (even as I type this) most of the day with barely functioning internet. I had to go into Yerevan just to be able to work a bit. It actually died again in the middle of typing this. But yeah, this is definitely not a people problem, it's a leadership problem. And Armenians are so used to these problems because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, so little is asked about why things haven't improved. It's all too familiar to them.
I know how hard it can be to suddenly see the dark side of what might have felt like paradise first. I went through this on El Hierro, The Canary Islands and am sometimes even sensing it here in Portugal but then I focus on the positives and see that they still clearly outweigh the negatives.
Curious about your next step(s).