When I look back at 2021, it feels empty. Weirdly enough, I didn’t have that feeling at all about 2020 while event-wise it was much emptier.
Is it bad empty or good empty? It is both.
The biggest change of this year was our move from the Netherlands to France. I always struggle to talk about it because I don’t want to look ungrateful or entitled… but France is an extremely challenging country to move to from all angles. It is ridden with inefficient bureaucracy across all unsynchronized systems, it is famously English non-friendly, and it has no intention of being inclusive towards foreigners.