I lived in the US for a few years in the 2010s. It was an overall positive experience, but one could easily see the social thread being pulled extremely thin, w

I lived in the US for a few years in the 2010s. It was an overall positive experience, but one could easily see the social thread being pulled extremely thin, which is why I left. I've lived in many places, but in no other first world country have I been face-to-face with someone who actively hates me and wants to beat my face in for not being destitute like him or for not having the same color skin as him (and this in a supposedly safe part of town). And it didn't happen only once. Every country/kingdom/empire eventually faces the crisis of financial inequality, where the rich become so obscenely rich and the poor so desperately poor that the majority lose faith in the system. This takes decades, sometimes centuries, but the slow drift towards inequality is a tidal force that requires periodic fixes in order to avoid a bad fate. Some older societies engaged in pot latch or jubilees or other means of peaceful redistributions of wealth. Others suffered revolutions or civil wars after the people completely lost faith and engaged in mob rule to achieve their justice. Sister comments talk about other places being politically unstable, but of the first world countries, America is currently the least stable by a wide margin. Next to America, France looks like a shining beacon of a functional system. There are many places to live in that are calm and stable, and some of them even have decent economies to boot (I'd name a few, but then the local curmudgeons will seep out of the woodwork to wax poetic about their local storm-in-a-teacup). So yes, there are options. The quickest test of stability is the rich-poor divide. The real question to ask yourself is: "Do I leave, or do I stay and try to fix things?"