This hits close to home. I'm UK-based remote working for a US company, and I've seen this play out more times than I'd like. Led the architecture and design on products that went on to do $100m+, only for someone else to waltz in and take the credit once I'd moved on to the next thing. The annoying bit is that being good at your job often means you get dragged into the next hard problem before the last one's had its moment. Meanwhile, whoever happens to be standing there when the champagne corks pop gets all the credit. The paper trail advice is bang on. I'd just add - document decisions as you make them, not after the fact. Architecture decision records, design docs with your name on them, commit histories that tell the story. Handy when people's memories start getting conveniently fuzzy.

An Isle of Wight’er here. We’re a welcoming bunch and when myself and my family travel to the North Island it does take a little adjustment in terms of adjusting to things such as body language and resisting the urge to speak with random people!

The funny thing is it's not just locals. You can feel the energy change on the train towards the coast as people get off and get on. People are more relaxed. Even the Londoners staying on the whole way starts to chill. I think when you're surrounded by a whole mass of people all the time and trying to navigate people who often want stuff from you, it's just natural to decide you need to ignore them or it'll be overwhelming.

Even where I live in South London, random strangers will say hi to you if you go for a walk in the park early enough in the morning, when they've not yet run into too many people. And then the later in the morning you go, the more people raises their shields.