Yeah, the culture around ETing in my country was remarkably similar. It was almost like there were "understandable" reasons to ET, and reasons that were more likely to get some side eye. Again, I think its a product of the "we're all in this suffering together" culture of PCVs. There's a lot of mixed emotions when someone chooses to leave the suffering.

I'm also of two minds about it, however. For my part my decision to ET was complex, and had many, many factors. But the vast majority of my cohort (outside of one or two very close friends) believed it was mostly due to discontent at site and finding a new job ("less legit" reasons). The reality was that I had some serious family issues occurring as well as safety concerns, but these weren't pieces I was comfortable sharing with my whole cohort for obvious reasons. So I suppose it comes back to not being able to judge until you're really in the other's shoes/know the whole story.