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Beware of places you think are better than what you have - the only reason you think that is because you don't know the bad parts of the place you want to go until you get there and live there awhile, then it may be too late to go back to the place you left. Of course, there are exceptions that may work out better than you had.

As to where you live now:
My house and back garden is my world and I am “President for Life” of my world. I can make it warmer if I want or colder if I want. I can shut the whole world out and it just be my Yorkie and me. There are turn off knobs on all electronics so they don't interfere with my libation of Amaretto and even smoke a cigarette with no one yelling my cig is killing them.

I can make it fancy if I want, or down by the beach simple with few clothes on if I want.

If I get sick, I have a good doctor. If I want to spend less, I live on more simple foods that are still healthy. If I want to spend less on electricity, I use fans in the less heated part of the day, saving the lower temp. setting for the highest heat part of the day.

If the economy crashes, I've got food and water, etc..

My point, is, one has to take action to make life the way one wants it wherever that is. I couldn't possibly move the great things I have to another country - I would have to start over and that isn't going to happen since I've already made this location/world operational to my exact liking.

There is also the fact of an American going to another country of which one is not a citizen. If hard times come there, you get no help and probably get hurt because you are a foreigner and foreigners are expendable. There is no way I would leave this country and be a foreigner to others.