This is a great question. I have been rethinking this myself and talking to my wife about it. I think it is one we could also apply to states in the US or even cities worldwide. Leaving a country is a much bigger change and requires more planning. I have put some thought into this question on the US state level. For me, and I think a lot of people to avoid making an emotion based decision you need to think about this and write it down before the shit hits the fan or even before it gets close. I firmly believe after talking to many people that moved during and after Covid that it was mostly emotion based. I'm not saying they made a mistake but rather that it wasn't very rational.

Here me on this. Why I say it wasn't rational is because of how they explain it. They will state false data about metrics in different places. They will exaggerate how bad it was vs how good it is where they have moved. They seem blind to the same problems in the new place. For many of these people the move was probably a good one but would have been better if they had thought it through earlier, did more research, and compared more options.

As far as CBDC enslavement, the more I think about CBDCs the less I think it will be a drastic change for the worse. It will be worse for sure but we already have a CBDC lite in most of the western world. The banking system as well as the credit card systems are all digital and controlled by the state already. They can and are moving toward stronger and stronger censorship of transactions. The CBDC would make it easier and faster for money to be distributed as well as censorship.

I think banks will push back on complete centralization. If you believe that the banks are the true power rather than the State then it seems less likely that the CBDC will be completely centralized.

As far as a social credit system. We already have that but it is more capitalist. Its called your credit score. Try to rent an apartment without a credit check. I needed one to get service with my ISP. We already have it, they just haven't tightened it as they have in China. In my view most Americans are just asleep. Even most bitcoiners. We always have a worse place to live to use as cope for our own situation. I get this every time I visit Texas or the south. People say, how can you live in California. They seem to ignore the state of their own localities and how they are just 5 to 10 years behind states like NY and CA. They are complacent. These people talk like California is run by the CCP. Its more like a EU state in reality. That's bad enough, don't get me wrong but there are tradeoffs.

The question is, what freedom matters most to you? What government is gonna be the least bad to deal with. It can vary widely within a state as well. I don't live in a big city or even a city. In some ways I have more freedom than the average person that lives in Austin, Texas for example.

It seems like you usually see two extremes. The first being I gotta get out because this is a hell hole. The person magnifies what they see on the news or web. Many things that do not even affect them. They do not take steps within their power to enhance their freedom where they are. They act like all they need to do is move. They take their issues with them.

The other extreme are the cope people. Those that don't want to do anything hard. Those that don't want to feel like they need to take action.

Just my two sats.