These are not, in fact, important factors in deciding in which country to live.
I like to appear right wing (hence I can say to my friends I moved on principle)
Once moved out of the country, your current friends will have a very small impact on your life. Whatever utility you gain from feeling great while preparing for your move will be dwarfed by the disutility of having optimized incorrectly after you have moved.
I place a very high utility on not having the trauma of going to jail (judging from past experience there’s a risk I’d kill a burgular)
You are better served by living in a country with a low crime rate, or living in a country with a cheap cost of living so you can live in the best neighborhoods. What are the odds you’ll actually be broken into, while you’re home, while you’re able to get to your gun, and that you’ll feel better having killed another person? That’s a lot of conditional probabilities, for something that would give you negative utility anyways. Try to imagine how you’ll feel one month or one year afterwards knowing you’ve ended a life instead of just having bought renter’s insurance and getting new stuff anyways (assuming you bought a replacement versus ACV policy).
Plus a degree of pride in actually having something resembling actual property rights.
There’s points of pride you don’t know about until you live elsewhere. One is having 10x the internet speed than another country. Another is not having to worry about medical care, having better medical care, and spending 1⁄2 as much per capita on that care. Yet another is having protections against corporations some other countries don’t have.
It’s best to narrow your search to things that will effect your life on a real day-to-day basis, then sort competitors from there. Climate, culture, population density, and job market are the most important factors.
1- You don’t know my friends. Many of them would be likely to call me a significant amount of the time anyway, and I don’t want to have to ‘cut the cord’ with them.
2- I admit I’m not actually normal in this, but I tend to imagine how I’d feel knowing that I was beaten by a burgular who I couldn’t stop form taking all my stuff as worse. At least I’d have my pride if I killed them.
3- After a certain point, internet speed as a matter of dimishing marginal returns. I also care about pride in what I have, not pride in what I am given by the government. If I have the right to defend my property, that’s at least closer to something that’s inherent to me rather than the government than protection aganist corporations.
These are not, in fact, important factors in deciding in which country to live.
Once moved out of the country, your current friends will have a very small impact on your life. Whatever utility you gain from feeling great while preparing for your move will be dwarfed by the disutility of having optimized incorrectly after you have moved.
You are better served by living in a country with a low crime rate, or living in a country with a cheap cost of living so you can live in the best neighborhoods. What are the odds you’ll actually be broken into, while you’re home, while you’re able to get to your gun, and that you’ll feel better having killed another person? That’s a lot of conditional probabilities, for something that would give you negative utility anyways. Try to imagine how you’ll feel one month or one year afterwards knowing you’ve ended a life instead of just having bought renter’s insurance and getting new stuff anyways (assuming you bought a replacement versus ACV policy).
There’s points of pride you don’t know about until you live elsewhere. One is having 10x the internet speed than another country. Another is not having to worry about medical care, having better medical care, and spending 1⁄2 as much per capita on that care. Yet another is having protections against corporations some other countries don’t have.
It’s best to narrow your search to things that will effect your life on a real day-to-day basis, then sort competitors from there. Climate, culture, population density, and job market are the most important factors.
1- You don’t know my friends. Many of them would be likely to call me a significant amount of the time anyway, and I don’t want to have to ‘cut the cord’ with them. 2- I admit I’m not actually normal in this, but I tend to imagine how I’d feel knowing that I was beaten by a burgular who I couldn’t stop form taking all my stuff as worse. At least I’d have my pride if I killed them. 3- After a certain point, internet speed as a matter of dimishing marginal returns. I also care about pride in what I have, not pride in what I am given by the government. If I have the right to defend my property, that’s at least closer to something that’s inherent to me rather than the government than protection aganist corporations.