I moved to a less insane state. It's a lot easier and acceptable to family than switching countries would be. And life really is better, people are much more sociable, and the recovery from the covid lockdowns started happening much sooner. My only regret is that I didn't move years ago. It's really a frog boiling thing, you don't realize how bad it is, because it happens so slowly.

I've been encouraging Americans to move to better states for a long time. There's enormous geographical variance in cost of living, taxes, weather, and everything else.