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Best countries to move to/live in nowadays? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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With all the dismal news about America lately, my home, I'm starting to seriously look at where else to move.

Putting aside for now the difficulty of actually immigrating to some countries, I'm curious on the opinions of others (especially people living outside the U.S) on this.

What I'm looking for in a country is, I imagine, similar to many people. I'm trying to find somewhere that will exhibit:

  • Low racism
  • Low sexism
  • Low LGBTQ-phobia
  • Strong laws around food quality and safety
  • Strong laws about environmental protection
  • Strong laws against unethical corporate practices (monopoly, corruption, lobbying, etc)
  • Strong laws for privacy
  • Good treatment of mentally ill, homeless, and impoverished people

Those are the real important things. Of course the nice-to-haves are almost too obvious to be worth listing, low cost of living, strong art and cultural scene, nice environment, and so on.

My actual constraints that might really matter are that I only speak English (and maybe like A1-2 level German). It seems incredibly intimidating to try to find employment somewhere when I can hardly speak the language.

I know nowhere on Earth is perfect, just curious what people may have to suggest. I hope this question isn't too selfish to ask here.

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[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's important to consider trends and trajectories, while countries like Ireland and whatnot may appear to satisfy a lot of these, they are also struggling with the same decaying Capitalist system and are being dragged down by US decay as well. Countries like China that are improving rapidly might be more worth considering.

[โ€“] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

China would get a -100/10 for privacy though.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

About the same score as any Western country. Privacy isn't really respected anywhere unless you force it yourself, too much money in big data.

[โ€“] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In China it's illegal to be private though. Skynet, the surveillance system is always watching you when your in public. You have to use phones thay are regulated by the government and you can't have access to websites thay aren't whitlisted by the government unless you use a vpn which as far as I know is illegal in China.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Western countries have similar levels of surveilance and regulation. The firewall and VPN bit is true, but that's not for privacy so much as it is the desire to build up their own internet that can't be dominated by the US. They are very wary of how western countries used propaganda to destabilize the USSR with outlets like Radio Free Europe.