The mitzvos you lose

Zionists always throw that Ramban at ya, even though the Ramban himself didn't move to Israel until the last 2 years of his life.

The implication is that you gain a mitzvah by living here. But you lose so many. Example, Ahavas Yisroel. Anglos have so many terrible experiences with Israelis that they develop serious hostility to Jews in Israel. You have to be quite the tzadick to love these people.

You might even come to harbor hostility to the land when you see it covered in traffic and ugly buildings and when your entire experience is negative even the mitzvah of yishuv ha'aretz becomes unpleasant.

You lose Torah study because you work 6 days a week.

You lose hachnachas orchim because your tiny apartment has no room for guests.

You lose tzedukah because you have little money for it.

You lose middos because you learn to be pushy and argumentative. You learn to hate.

And all of this is magnified because you are doing it in the Holy Land.

So don't fall for this Ramban says schtick. There's a reason so many tzadickim didn't come here. I know that the average Zionist who moves to Israel sees himself as the greatest tzadick just because he lives in Israel. Hard to argue somebody out of their delusions.