I didn't want to leave. I totally fell head over heels in love with the place!
I'm glad to hear someone's having fun!
A few of the culprits are the following: rampant inflation that eroded purchase power and decimated savings, and hence preventing most men from being able to raise a family on their own these days; social security pitting the old against the young and preventing people from investing in raising children as a means of providing for older age; various family and employment coercive laws that literally ripped families apart.
Sad but true..