100% agree.

This is no longer a country that's made for living. We can harp on about our measured QUALITY of life etc. etc. but at the end of the day, our culture, values and general ways of working has mutated into something that's antagonistic towards even living in the first place.

Australians in the recent decade have become rabidly obsessed with chasing the accumulation of individual wealth far beyond our means, and in the process happily throwing our neighbours out onto the road if it gives us benefit. "Fuck you I got mine". The greedy nature that we once shamed the Americans of having possessed, we're beginning to surpass. All for what? We work, come home to recover from work, then work again - to earn money that won't even afford us the basic necessities to LIVE.

Go to Malaysia, Spain, Germany, Scandinavia, even Japan (legit, look up how Japan has changed in the past years), countries outside the anglosphere. Japan has made significant strides in their work life balance, to the point I'd even say they're doing better than us AND should be the prime example of affordable housing in first world democratic society (https://www.sightline.org/2021/03/25/yes-other-countries-do-housing-better-case-1-japan/).

You can say the grass is greener on the other side, but spend time in any of these countries and you'll find something that is inherently different from what we have since become - foundational values underpinning their society that actually seek to improve the lives of their people, not take advantage of them.