Maybe not the answer you were looking for, but I felt like sharing. I am in a stage of life I want to live wherever I find stability, it can be anywhere.

I’ve moved a lot searching for a better place and always found both happiness and misery in those four countries. There are problems everywhere and choosing those I actually care about makes my daily life a bit more meaningful.

Ireland or Finland. Senegal or Mexico when the cold gets unbearable

I lived in Suburbia as a child. Happiness is a thin veneer over the contempt the majority of neighbors feel for each other.

I lived in rural towns for much of my young adult life. Monopolized utilities and services, as well as the issue of small-town indoctrination, were reliably present.

I currently live in a metro. The rampant corruption and vehicle-oriented culture are noxious.

I guess I want to live in outer space. It’s pretty quiet up there and I’d imagine it doesn’t really smell all that bad.

A stable country with solid social safety nets where the people I love are not considered criminals simply for existing would be ideal.

Countryside, as far away as possible while still having a reliable internet connection

Somewhere in the countryside with lots of nature around but not too far away from civilization. Ideally in a small country mostly unaffected by geopolitics and with a temperate climate.

I want to live in the woods in New Hampshire again some day. It’s a beautiful place and also a place where the state and local governments don’t make me grind my teeth in frustration all the time*. I would have a house, a lot of land, and no neighbors except for pine trees.

I had most of that already and I left, because I was very lonely - I think I talked to another person face to face about once every few weeks. I thought I would be OK with that because I was used to being alone, but having no family, no friends, and a 100% remote job was too much for me. Apparently even I start going crazy if I am that isolated. Now I live somewhere I really don’t like (New York City) but I’m close to my family.

*New Hampshire is a rather libertarian state. Taxes are low but the town where I lived (population 15,000) didn’t provide water, sewers, or garbage collection. Many things are legal that aren’t legal in most other places. For example, you can drive without insurance, set off fireworks, and do almost anything with a gun except shoot another person. The state motto is “Live free or die,” and I would tell my guests that as long as they did one or the other, the state’s duty to them would be satisfied.

Canada where all the rich ppl go I assume they know better than me

I’m basically there. I wish my property were a bit bigger with some woods and a freshwater stream coming out of the mountains, but I’m like 95% happy. Here is rural northern Japan. Having a grocery store closer would be neat. Maybe if the town grows again (it’s at around 50% of its pre-tsunami population) the one nearby will reopen.

The Shire

Always the city. I would like to remove Buffalo from the US and transplant just over the border to Canada and move there. It’s such a cool city.

I only do well in cities. I need diversity, culture, community, and transit. You don’t get that in the middle of nowhere.

Agent 47’s cabin. For those that don’t know, he’s the main character from the Hitman games - and yes, his crib is epic.

I’m an urban person, so I want to live in a dense city where there is great public transportation and you can easily walk to essential places (i.e. grocery store). I also prefer indoor spaces over outdoor, so a city where there are a lot of indoor activities. Places like Singapore and Tokyo.

A nice little cabin in the woods and by a lake.

Far enough from the nearest town that I don’t have neighbors, but close enough that I can reasonably make a grocery run each week.