Ouch. I&#x27;ve worked remotely for years, have a history of moving, and haven&#x27;t been in school for over a decade. I can easily vouch for your statements, not to mention two other factors - being in a Southern European country where &quot;there&#x27;s no future&quot; (and thus it&#x27;s the locals that move) and being in my 30s when most social circles are already established.<p>It gets more complicated depending on the type of country one lives in. It&#x27;s been said that Portugal, where I&#x27;m living, doesn&#x27;t have so much of a social culture while Spain very much does. This weekend I went to a Spanish border town and saw infinitely more people, of all ages, out and about. Crossing an artibrary EU border (just a sign) and suddenly everything changes. The problem lies in what this means for the individual. As it has been explained to me, social cultures are like peaches - easy to breach, hard to truly enter - while less-social cultures are like coconuts - hard to breach, but easier to truly enter.