Sure! But when the question is "Is country x rich or poor" it's hard to gauge it any other way than using macroeconomics. "How would you feel living in country

Sure! But when the question is "Is country x rich or poor" it's hard to gauge it any other way than using macroeconomics. "How would you feel living in country X" and "how does a person in a similiar position as myself feel living in country X" is quite personal question and probably quite detached from macroeconomics unless comparing countries with wildly different GDP:s.