I agree about environment conditioning you to some extent; but not necessarily solving underlying, unrelated problems. I've lived in 4 different countries in t

I agree about environment conditioning you to some extent; but not necessarily solving underlying, unrelated problems. I've lived in 4 different countries in the last 8 years so I've also been moving quite a bit, even between continents, and I have "reinvented" myself in every new country and job, and absorbed new ways of living as well. But it took me this long and this many countries to realise that some of the issues I had were relationship issues, not country or job issues, which is why I took them with me across countries and jobs. While I agree with what you're saying, this is why I believe that trying to fix a general sense of unhappiness or unfulfilment by going through drastic changes may be an overreaction if you don't understand what you're trying to fix in the first place.