Do you ever feel "insulated" from the rest of the world?

I live in the EU and I get the feeling that whatever new f*cked up trend is happening in the developed world, we're always going to be in the middle of it. Economic crisis, housing crisis, demographic crisis, migration crisis, climate crisis, energy crisis, inflation, political extremism, military tensions - you name it. It always hits us first, and often worse than anyone else.

From my vantage point, Australia looks like the total opposite: an oasis that lives in its own bubble and where nothing ever happens, history never happens, things are always fine and if they're not, they will be.