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Norway. 2000 percent. That's where I'm from and want to visit. They also are satisfied citizens.

I've been trying to convince my wife that we should move out of the USA for 4 years.

Absolutely. I’d probably go to Ireland or Scotland.

Canada maybe

Fuck yeah! I don't even live in Florida or Texas but I would give anything to be even farther away from their braindead approach to governance.

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.

EDIT: Why the downvotes, I think nomadic lifestyle is one way to answer this question.

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.

https://www.powells.com/locations/powells-city-of-books#:~:text=Powell's%20City%20of%20Books%20is,housing%20approximately%20one%20million%20books.

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.

Maybe. I have been to a few countries outside of my own and wouldn't want to live in any of them more than where I already do. I've also been to almost all 50 states (haven't been to Alaska, Hawaii or Maine) and I havent wanted to live in any other than the one I already do.

I wanna check out Japan and the whole Scandinavian region. All those countries sound cool as fuck, but I've never been to 'em to know how they really are.

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.

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.

Australia, new zealand or the parts of canada near a large body of water to moderate temperatures

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.

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.

Would probably stay in the same state, maybe in the same city, but not in the same apartment.

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.

I probably check out Australia, New Zealand, or Costa Rica.

My old answer would have been to check out a Nordic country, but I think trying to force my kids into Nordic languages would not be the best idea. A couple of my coworkers moved to Sweden. The one with older children seem to get along pretty well the one with younger children not so much.

I'd be tempted to move to a Scandinavian nation for fear of Christian Nationalist movement in the US, also a northern migration from the California Central Valley may become necessary as the earth warms.

Curiously I may actually have (remote) family, but that would be a far reach into the eye of the wind.

I really enjoyed my time in both the Netherlands and Hawaii and would happily live in either.

I'd move back to the UK. It's where I spent my childhood. I genuinely love Shakespeare, theatre and all that crap. Small studio in London, volunteer/work in the arts/cultural sector, go to the theatre or a tv recording during the weekend.

Unfortunately life is shit in the UK if you're not rich. I once calculated that I'd be better off staying unemployed where I live, than finding suitable employment in London. I have a couple of degrees, but starting wages were abysmal when you factored in cost of living (rent, etc.). A lot of money would also mean I can get another degree and get a visa. Also: private health insurance. The NHS ain't what it used to be.

Of course, if I was really rich I could also just stay where I am (low capital gain taxes), build a fully self-sufficient eco house (energy, water) then fly/drive/take the train to London, Berlin, Paris, Prague, Amsterdam for the weekend. Hell, buy a nice car, go for a drive.

I'm in the process of finishing up my PhD in Italy and moving somewhere much less pleasant where pay is much better. So I guess it's rather the opposite in my case: Had money not been an issue I would have stayed where I am.

Absolutely, I moved away from a city I liked because of money. I would go back there in a heartbeat, although I'm about to move to another place, if I like it there I would prefer to bring my family over because even though the main reason was the money, there are other issues with the city I used to live.

I do, every month.