Oh Meg.....major loving hugs coming your way!

I feel your pain and I wish I had the magic answers for you, but I don't!

I'm in Australia, and yes we are nice.....well I think I am nice, and I know my friends certainly are nice.....but we're the same as every other country! There are good and bad everywhere. It's what you make it yourself that makes each place special!

Please don't think about running away to another country. You'd have no job, no friends, no social structure....no nothing! You'd be more alone in "the idyllic" country than you are in your own area that you hate so much!

Maybe you could consider moving to a different part of your own country, but please stay where you understand the politics of work, money and socialization.

Have a look around if that's what you want....but don't move too far away that you lose touch with the norm of every day living.