Seems like it’s a well known fact that being poor or even middle class (if that will even exist anymore) in the US disposes one to a very low quality of life (e.g., living in areas with higher crime rates, bad healthcare, the most obvious being cost of living, …etc)

On the flip side, what are some reasons why the top 1-5% percentile would also want to leave the US? (e.g., taxes/financial benefits, no longer aligning with the culture? I would assume mainly the former)

If you are in the top 1-5%, is living in the US still the best place to live? (as many people would like to suggest)

  • VoyagerVII@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Basically, this. We can afford to live in places that don’t give us such a high income by now, and we simply like them better. More time to enjoy ourselves, a culture that’s more aligned with our values, and a place we have simply come to love and feel at home every time we’ve visited. So we’re not primarily looking for economic opportunity now, we’re looking for quality of life… and the US is much, much better at economic opportunity than it is at quality of life.