I've been trying to convince my wife that we should move out of the USA for 4 years.
If I had unlimited F You money, I would either leave Nebraska or sponsor some carpetbaggers from New York or California, preferably enough of them to sway the elections here.
I've travelled, not EXTENSIVELY, but I've been to other places. Honolulu, Seattle, San Francisco, San Mateo, Cupertino, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Chicago, Memphis. I got as far as the airports in Salt Lake City, Denver, and Atlanta.
I keep coming home to Portland because no matter where I've been... nothing compares to Powell's.
I feel like being closer to my aging parents is going to start being more important, and we’re starting to get together a good medical team for my stepdaughter who has some challenging medical issues. Rebuilding that team in another state could be challenging and would take time, to say nothing of other countries that have nationalized health care that don’t even believe the disease exists.
This is definitely going to be more important for me too in the next 10 years or so. My parents are divorced and live in entirely different states, so I'm not sure at this point what will happen, who will move to be closer to whom, etc.
I'm French, fuck that I'm staying here. I'm so thankfull for all we have here
I'd love to leave the US. It's truly a steaming shitshow and I don't see it improving anytime soon. I'd be interested in checking out Belgium or Luxembourg, or maybe Norway. However, my parents and in-laws are aging and it wouldn't be right to leave them knowing they're going to need increased help over the next 10-15 years. So we're staying put for now.
Yes. Emphatically.
I dont know where I'd move to, cause I'm a broke poor and find it depressing to focus on unachievable details, but if my bank account had 9 zeros added to the end of it tomorrow? I'd find some place, spend a year or two hiring tutors for language and manners, then move the fuck there.
As a radical leftist who lives in rural Kentucky, if I truly had so much money that it was not an issue, I would stay and try to affect change.
It's tempting of course to move somewhere more sympathetic to my views and my desired lifestyle, but I don't want to abandon my politically uninformed family and friends. I would rather use my wealth to organize mutual aid, fund libraries, and instill class consciousness here in my home, in the hopes of creating a community that aligns with my views and desired lifestyle.
Considering that money is power under our current economic system, this is really a question of if you received power would you use it selfishly to help only yourself or try to help others.
I was recently on a group hike with a university club, and an Austrian exchange student kept talking about how good life in Austria is. He attends university for free, lives in a vibrant city with great public transit, and with affordable housing.
My city has unaffordable housing, shit transit, and an inept local government. We are staking our future on oil prices constantly going up. The last time oil prices dipped was catastrophic, with mass layoffs and unemployment in nearly every sector.
On top of this we are being hit extra hard by climate change. Last summer I couldn't go outside because of wildfire smoke, and this year is going to be even worse. Every year there's less and less water, to the point where year round drought seems like an inevitability. Our politicians are climate change deniers. The people who elect them couldn't care less, and cry about any measures taken to mitigate it's effects.
I don't want to be stuck paying $2000 a month for a studio apartment as the climate around me slowly degrades, and my politicians try their best to turn us into America.
A sizeable fraction of the students I've talked to about this has or is playing around with the idea of leaving. Austria is just the first country that came to mind, but I would take almost any EU country if the opportunity was offered.
Norway. 2000 percent. That's where I'm from and want to visit. They also are satisfied citizens.
Would probably stay in the same state, maybe in the same city, but not in the same apartment.
If I could afford it (and to come back and visit family or to bring them to visit me) I'd move to New Zealand in a heartbeat.
I think if money were not an issue, probably I would either move to some sort of unpopulated island in the pacific, a space station, the moon, really anywhere I could sufficiently threaten geopolitical interests while being kind of isolated. Maybe even just the top of a new york high rise, lex luthor style.
More realistically, everyone's saying scandinavian countries, nordic countries, and these are popular for a reason. I could probably acquiesce, because I'm white and can speak english, but I also would pretty much be fine with any EU citizenship. I feel like there's a lot of different strengths and weaknesses that would be interesting to learn about from each and see which one I like the best, because I don't think it'd be a high level idea to judge any of them from the outside looking in. Likewise, I've also seen some taiwan suggestions, and that's kind of an interesting proposal as well.
I dunno. If money wasn't an issue, I think I might as well just stay where I am, and use it to do some cool stuff where I currently live. It's not really in the spirit of the question, but I think the main object, main limiter, in my life, probably in most people's lives, is gonna be money. I don't know if the context matters much, but then maybe thinking along those lines, I'd rather be homeless in a nordic country, so I might as well just kind of default to one of them because the consequences of financial failure there seem maybe less dire than in lots of other places. So maybe my answer is still the same as everyone else's, nordic countries.
I would love to move somewhere with a bit cooler weather, but I would not like to leave all the family that slowly moved here.
I would like to be somewhere warmer. Wanna trade families?
Australia, new zealand or the parts of canada near a large body of water to moderate temperatures
No. I don't like where I live (because it's a big city) but I'm living near my family.
If not for that, I would probably be back in New Hampshire. I used to live there alone with a 100% work-from-home job and I would go weeks without speaking to another human being face-to-face. I left because it wasn't great for my mental health but for some reason I still really want to go back.
I'd want to head for the Canadian Rockies, somewhere near Banff. Not just for the cool name, but also because I like the cold and snow, I love the mountains, and it's going to be one of few places on Earth that will be habitable even with the worst of climate change.
Though now that nuclear war is back on the table I'm thinking Patagonia.
Most probably yes. I live in Russia and when the war started i was really thinking about getting as far away as possible. And then it's just... Too complex? Looking for a place to live when rent is up 250% due to lot of people immigrating, being unable to move your savings out of the country, and only having barely enough to support myself. Having unlimited budget probably would have changed everything. As to where - no idea to be honest.
Absolutely. I’d probably go to Ireland or Scotland.
PNW, forests are pretty. I've long fantasized about dropping my life in Kansas and just moving to Tacoma like I'm a 19th century con artist trying to escape my past
I'd travel by land. Possibly with a bicycle, if foldable, cause I like to walk on foot too.
Not alone, I think, and with radio (other things aside, catching cold or getting food poisoning in the middle of nowhere can result in death, and of course more extreme things like breaking a bone).
Not intentionally in some wilderness.
I live in the UK. I'd probably want to move to a nordic country.
I did. Moving out now. They're racist as hell and getting worse by the day.
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