Talked to two Japanese students who went to Europe because they hated their home country, like you do. Both were adamant they would have become a number in the suicide statistic if they wouldn’t have gotten out of the country. They didn’t plan on returning, ever.

Just saying there is a way out, I guess that’s what I thought was needed to be said.

It is known in Germany, “Eulen nach Athen tragen”. I’ve heard the explanation that the currency of Athens in antiquity had owl on one side.

This one https://www.reppa.de/images/BilderE/eulen2.GIF