if you dont like it get the hell out.

[Kitty Galore]

My son wants to move to Australia, not because he is unhappy in the US, but because the love of his life is a citizen.
He visited a couple of summers ago for a few weeks. Since then he has not been allowed another visa from Australia without showing a bank account with 20k (iirc), in his name. They want to get married. She spent 5 weeks here, and I guess the plan is that she will be moving here. She has a career, so we will see.

[loganonekenobi]

i agree. However life is as it is. It seems that in this country the only goal is wealth. however, without the humanity factor all seems to go to shit.

[The Grand Nudger]

it just seems so out of balance.  I know that America is supposed to be the land of hope for others around the world.  Yet now 200 years latter the evidence shows that life is better in some of the countries that these immigrants fled from.  I want to flee back...
if any one in Europe knows of a way i can do that i would love to hear the ideas.

.....yeah, so a snapshot in time perhaps, and definitely subject to opinion.  I don't know that things are quite as disparate (or desperate) as they may have been back when people were fleeing.  The fact that you're looking for a place that could afford you a commensurate standard of living with what you currently have and is also open to immigration -and have had some difficulty in this- speaks, I think, to the quality of life in the us..and the ability of european nations to accept immigration while maintaining those standards of living, however unfairly distributed in either case example.

Is there no way you could achieve the standard of living you feel is an opportunity in those european nations here, in the US? I'm wondering what opportunity or advantage you see, and feel that would be worth the hassle of expatriation, I suppose. Or is it more an issue of getting away from the nuts to a place that's familiar-to-better all by itself? I ask because there are probably US communities like that, if it's mostly the latter. You might be happy with a move in-country.