Expat Discovers Latin America Operates on Social Connection, Expresses Shock
After three years of motorcycle touring through South and Central America, a bewildered foreign engineer wrote a shocked manifesto discovering that locals actually like socializing, maintaining friendships, and prioritizing human connection over corporate grind culture. He plans to return north to evaluate if his soul can survive American productivity metrics, which is hilarious because everyone who moves to Baja already abandoned those brainworms years ago to live in a palapa and stare at empty rights.