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.

  • Rikudou_SageA
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    14 hours ago

    low racism, low sexism, low lgbt-phobia

    I think any capital of any EU country qualifies. Your experience may vary in more rural parts of the country.

    Good treatment of mentally ill, homeless and impoverished people

    Now, again the EU is overall much better than the US in this, though I wouldn’t particularly recommend my country if that’s something that’s important for you.

    As for the rest, any EU country will do.

    Speaking only English is fine, you’ll manage, just beware that you’ll probably never feel part of the local population if you don’t invest the time into learning the language.

    If you enjoyed German, you can take lessons once in your target country. Or if you fancy any other language, just make it a goal to learn it eventually.

    Obviously it depends on what exactly it is you do for a living, someone in sales will probably have a harder time finding a job in English than someone in IT.