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)
For me - Better quality of life, better environment for kids, better outlook on future prospects; especially in Asia pacific countries like Japan, Singapore, China. Barrier to entry is a bit higher than European states, but if you’re upper middle class with a solid career it’s easier to break in.
I am definitely on the train that US is in decline though, and I don’t see a path out. Things just seem never to move forward and in many aspects are just decaying. I thought this incompetence of governance was a normal thing until I started living in Europe then Asia where many things just worked and things got done.
If I was an order of magnitude wealthier I’d have multiple bases across the world, and likely live in the US as a primary as I can create a pretty big bubble to ignore all the decaying parts of society.