I intend to emmigrate from the United States. Iceland currently looks like the best choice, but I haven't made any commitments as yet.
Some things (roughly ordered) I want out of where I live:
strong protections of human rights
permissive societal norms
technologically savvy populace
decent public transportation
significant immigrant populations
economicly free
sufficient welfare
a clear path to citizenship
reasonable political representation while a noncitizen
unlikely to go to war or be significantly endangered by war
geologically stable (iceland is obviously not the best here)
There's more things, but that's enough to be getting on with.
This is mostly for my personal calibration, but I am of course open to suggestions.
Edit/clarification: This market will resolve based on where I plan to live at the time of market close. I don't need to actually emmigrate or anything like that.
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@Shump The population is something like 10% Polish - while that's hardly burgenioning with diversity, it's not nothing. Likewise I'm not fussed about number of people, see below :)
How do you feel about never experiencing summer again? I am currently suffering because of this in Canada where the weather is milder. You can fly to Malaga or something if you need warmth but it’s not the same thing imo
Also: food is mostly imported so it's expensive and poor quality compared to southern Europe or Asia
@mariopasquato I'm not fond of tempetures over 25°C or so, and the populated regions are quite a bit warmer in the winter than Maine.
The food consideration is valid.
Roughly where do you currently live? How large is your current city?
I quite like many of the factors you've listed above, but I have trouble selling myself on moving somewhere where the largest city has 130,000 people and there are only ~300,000. The nearest metro >1,000,000 people is just barely under 1,000 miles away (Dublin).
Given you are on Manifold, you likely have somewhat odd beliefs and I assume it is much easier to find like minded people if there's lots of people around.
@RobertCousineau (one note: the capital region of Iceland has 230,000 people. I mistakenly used metro pop for Dublin but City Limits pop for Reykjavik)
@RobertCousineau I currently live in rural Maine :) Maine is about the same size as Iceland with about three times the people. Reykjavík feels like a very reasonable city to me.
@Imuli fair! How often do you find yourself traveling to Boston for 'big city' type things? Do you feel like your work benefits from being in a time zone aligned with where you live?
@RobertCousineau It's been some years (8?) since I went to Boston regularly. My current work is international/fully remote - though working in Iceland is one of the easier immigration options for me.
@Odoacre Everything down there is poisonous, and my friends from there gripe about internet censorship issues. Still better than Russia.
@JohnSmithb9be Agreed on both counts. Though I don't care that much about the poisonous fauna and flora :)
@Imuli thoughts on NZ? Seems like there is less governmental dysfunction than AU, more people, equally beautiful to IS, super easy immigration, welfare, high peace index, technolically literate populace, etc. Also it has both more rural and more populated areas than Iceland.
@RobertCousineau New Zealand definitely made the short list! I've been seeing some talk about immigration reform after COVID... and they do significantly more ongoing humans rights issues. I have some hesitancy with what the legislative future will be like with them being part of the five eyes. Not out of the question but pretty far from better :)