So far quite opposite is happening. Until about 15 years ago, Istanbul was very cosmopolitan city. You could meet people from all corners of Africa, Asia and Europe there. Even locals looked very white because of all slaves Ottomans brought into Istanbul. To some extend Istanbul was culturally not part of Turkey (something like London and UK).
Hovewer over last decade or so, Istanbul is being assimilated into Turkey. Many orthodox muslim turkish immigrants from east part of Turkey. More radicals... Foreigners are not so welcomed anymore...
Changing locations every few weeks wears you down, some recovery is needed.. And "making some friends" is an euphemism for mating if you have to know, very hard to get quality stuff if you are just passing through.
I get the whole "building community", some people are really into it, but some others are not!
Look into article, it is all Phase 1, Phase 2.... like an elevator. And absolute top is helping community like proper tradcon. It does not even count with possibility, that people do not really care about such things. There is no basic reasoning about "should we do it"? Usual endgame is to settle down with bad partner.
I like hiking and traveling. I am always in climate that has nice temperatures, usually near sea. Sometimes I sleep on beach, sometimes in hotel. All via super cheap deals (you get very good at that over time).
If I would have less money, I would probably live healthier lifestyle. I would cut alcohol and meat, eat more veggies. I would also take long term lease, make some friends, that is another win for mental health.
> freedom money can buy as it relates to your work.
> power of money resides in its ability to provide a better life for our families.
I really hate this mentality, it sees money as power to buy freedom and eventually to "buy family".
For me the key is to minimize expenses to some reasonable minimum. It does not matter how much I make, it does not affect my lifestyle much. Maybe I would buy a nicer laptop. I gave up on being slave to money long time ago.
That includes being a slave to family! I am open to serious relationship, but most people think I am cheap bum. I have no reason to change their opinions!
It would be interesting to track other stats. With alcohol person can be active while intoxicated, they can move and talk... Some other drugs may knock them out much earlier.
So if people start using harder substitute drugs, there may be raise of drug overdose, while domestic violence goes down.
Also in some countries effect may be opposite. During covid lockdowns people were not allowed to go to pubs (leave home) and domestic violence raised. Lockdowns were effectively strong prohibition.
Per driving license. It already works like that with truck driver and other professional drivers. They may have 5x more accidents than normal person, but they drive 20x more miles.
Most countries have penalty points on driving license. If some driver is violating traffic rules too often, they should lose driving license! Self driving cars should not have an exception!
Stuff like this is why I prefer to take a bus in Germany.
Trains are overbooked with free tickets and promotions (free pass for entire summer for 50 euro). While underlying infrastructure is not ready for such load. It leads to delays and mistakes. Plus railway stations in Germany look like homeless shelters!
On other side Germany has excellent motorway network. Flixbus is very cheap, quite comfortable, goes all the way to airport, and always on time!
> product managers need to influence others without authority.
This is BS! If manager has no authority, he does not matter! It is probably just some BS role to tick the checkbox!
Manager handles resource allocation. It protects its workers from being allocated away by other managers and departments. It also needs to make sure they are actually working on stuff that is needed!
This "trust" argument just offloads responsibility from management to low level workers.