You said: "I'll go to another country, go to another shore,
......Wherever I turn, wherever I look,I see the black ruins of my life, here".....
You won't find a new country, you won't find another shore. This city will always follow you.....
You'll always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there's no ship for you, there's no road. Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.
(from "the city" by K.Kavafi)
The door and windows are cut out from the walls to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space within, that its use depends. (from Tao Te Ching)
So... what really matters is not abstract concepts like space- and/or time- but the human mind. One can ramble- here, there and everywhere- carrying her/his red velvet armchair, timelessly,making her/his own space and time....