A good country to move to?

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Knowing that Bangkok is "sinking"(I'm actually having swamp land beneath me house as I type), there are considerations among my family of moving out. And we don't know elsewhere in Thailand to move to that will not have such floods.

I also had thoughts about moving to southern France, as I have seen in movies like Bottleshock or A Good Year. My dad also loves France, and I want my dad to be happy too... I mean, I want my family and myself to live life to the fullest...

Do you WP members have any considerations too?

You need to consider several things before you move:

(1) Is the country used to foreigners?
(2) is the country so saturated with foreigners, they want nothing to do with them anymore, like the USA.
(3) How hard is their language for you to learn?
(4) How different is their culture from yours?
(5) What's the crime rate? (a country's high crime rate can force people to move out of that country)
(6) How good is that country's economy?

Would it be weird for me to consider a country as composed of its geography rather than its populace? If not, disregarding the inhabitants of lands, many places on Earth are quite lovely. Think of the seas, the mountain ranges, the plains. There's plenty of wonderful country all over the place. People, however, ruin that quite a bit.

Canada's a nice place to live.

Vancouver was just named the best city in the world to live. So I'd say Canada.

I've heard Libya's nice this time of the year

I would choose Norway. It's number 1 on the Human Development Index, it's GDP per capita is 88 k. Everything looks good , but the main question would be if jobs are available, and immigration laws. Countries like this have high taxes also.

Which country have you moved already?

I am in Panama. Few people bother me here. That's the good thing. The bad thing? Even though I am local, I was born here, I don't look particularly Panamanian, and they are ill educated people who dislike foreigners sometimes, like most nations. But that rarely happens.

Police officers in Panama can stop you just because they are bored, but it has happened to me 3 times in 12 years.

Panamanians are rude, but I rarely talk to people here anyhow.

I lived in the US, but that was horrible. They tend to dislike loners and even get paranoid about them. The less you talk about people, the worse it gets. And I was there in the late 90s. I don't even know how bad it is now.

I live in Michigan, USA and giving Canada serious consideration. I think I need to finish my IT degree and establish experience first before immigration will take me though. Long term, I would also consider expatriating. (blame the greedy IRS)

I'm also curious about Europe (Germany, Austria) and Asia (Japan). Most of my heritage is German so I could see trying to establish myself there. I think I could learn that language to.

This thread was started over two years ago...

I would love to live in Spain someday. I've been many times and I love the culture, weather, cuisine, language etc. Every time I go, it feels like a home in-waiting.