Hello Nicole, thank you for this article and your series! My husband and I moved to SW Florida from Southern California at the beginning of the pandemic. Things are more like what you describe in Germany here. I think the extreme hectic lifestyles and stress is more present in bigger cities and overcrowded areas like So Cal, the Bay Area, or the NY/NJ/Pennsylvania/CT area. It really is laid back and down to earth here and I think, other areas as well. Overcrowding, insane commutes - those are all the causes of so much of the trouble.