My dream was to be able to move to a bigger and cheaper flat thanks to the fact that I'm no longer tied to a single place, district or a city. That I could expa

My dream was to be able to move to a bigger and cheaper flat thanks to the fact that I'm no longer tied to a single place, district or a city. That I could expand my hobbies thanks to that more available space, and that would compensate for the lack of social life and meeting with people. Turns out it's mostly North America thing that you can rent anywhere and anything and that places are generally bigger. In the Eastern Europe it's much harder to find a place to rent outside of big cities (I mean that it's really difficult to find a comfortable place to live & work from in cities other than big ones). In the big cities it's not any better! People are mostly renting flats that are designed to accommodate at most 2 people, sometimes 2 + 1 family. There are no places for bigger families, and thus no bigger places at all (unless you're willing to pay extra like 100% more than normal rental prices for such comfort, you're steeping into luxury category though, which doesn't seem to be that worthy, and in case you lose a job, it will be a big toil on your finances). It's also that these places are mostly furnished already, and you have to fit into the idealistic view of the owner of how you should live in that place. So even if you find a place which has dedicated room for other stuff, it turns out it's furnished for 2+1 family, and the owner is not willing to change it since you're an edge case. If you want to live and work from home comfortable you have to buy yourself an appropriate house / flat and make it yours. That means being able to freely hang a damn shelve on the wall, or design rooms that will fit your remote-office life. But in this economy, of prices rising 10-20% Y/Y, even if you're earning a lot it means nothing in terms of your ability to buy a meaningful real estate. So I'm here, stuck at remote work, living in a really small place, and struggling to find a way out of this situation. But do I miss working from office? Kinda, but what I miss more is working from an office for a startup where you can get to know each other, where staying after work means that you can just casually talk about random stuff, and that "the office" is more than just workspace. I sure as hell don't miss working for bigger firms, where that culture is lacking and you just work 9-5 with no way to enjoy the place you're at. There is some light in the tunnel though, I recently discovered a local hackerspace, where I'm able to fill the missing social gap, and do some manual work, and so far it's going great. But at this point I'm asking myself - is it really that I'm stuck here even though I can work from anywhere?