Question

Hello,
I open the newspaper and read about political disputes between parties that represent hundreds of thousands of people (and no more).
If I’m a poetry lover, then I watch poetry competitions on television with judges at a relatively low level compared למשל to the level in America, go to relatively small performances by singers at a relatively low level, and so on.
If I’m a young person with military ambitions, then at most I think about becoming the Chief of Staff (in the most extreme case) — and that’s Chief of Staff of a hundred-something thousand regular soldiers (as opposed to millions, for example, in the American army, with military equipment that in Israel people can only dream about, like aircraft carriers, enormously large submarines, much more varied aircraft, and so on, with budgets next to which the Israeli budget looks like a joke, etc.).
If I love science, then the most I can aspire to is the Technion, which, without disparaging it, is still far below the Ivy League in America. If I advance in academia, then at most I’ll become the head of an Israeli university (of course that’s not necessarily so, but generally speaking).
If I’m a manager in a company, say Shufersal, then if I were a manager in a supermarket chain in America — it would be dozens of times larger. And as above — advancement happens in much more limited stages compared to a company in a large country.
And so with every field — sports, creative work, different scientific fields, and so on. If I sat for an hour right now, I could probably think of dozens of examples, if not more.
So my question is: does the very fact of growing up and living in a small country like Israel drastically limit one’s personality / aspirations / ability to develop / worldview / breadth and expansiveness of spirit, and so on?
That is, every single second from the developmental years until the very last second — the breadth within which the mind functions is incomparably narrower than in a large country.
And one more point: I lived a bit in North America, and the cost of living there is much lower than here. Meaning — here you have to work much more for the same salary (in the best case, assuming you can even get the same salary; for example, doctors there earn a much, much higher salary). That means a great deal of time that could have been devoted to learning, personal development, enrichment, travel, creativity, and the like — is devoted to work, because technically you simply have to work much more to earn the same money (and I mean not only technically the size of the salary, but also what you can buy with that salary, like a house, a car, various products, etc.). I’m not talking at this point about getting rich, only about basic money.
So over the course of decades — tens of percent of life are devoted to something such that if you lived in another country, you could do completely different things with that time.