No, I don't think it does. Two weeks after I left South Africa, I started earning and finally crossed the $100 line. For the five years I was back in South Africa, my traffic dropped horrendously.

I even went so far as to fly to London in March 2020 in order to fix up my British Bank acount and redo my Stripe account so that I could get paid by Medium. For the full 13 months that I was in South Africa, even though I wrote the same type of articles that I do now, nothing really took off. In left in the middle of April. In the remaining two weeks of April, while in Dusseldorf, my traffic suddenly increased.

I have just gone through all my articles (about 400 of them) written before April this year. They were of the same quality as my writing now. Some of them didn't get a single view or fan of comment.

I'll tell you what it is because I used to be a web designer. Websites can determine where they want traffic and sites to go. So if you're living in South Africa or in the third world somewhere, they think that what you write will only be relevant to the people around you, so they don't really distribute it so much outside the third world.

I had the same thing with Hubpages. I was earning okay money and getting reasonable traffic until I returned to South Africa. Overnight, it all stopped.

I truly don't know what to do. For me, I decided in January this year I had had enough. I decided to leave in the middle of the pandemic. The only country I could go to was Germay because I'm half South AFrican and half Germany. I was in Germany 10 weeks, then I came to Portugal where I am now.

I don't know what to suggest.