While most people here would focus on about the negatives of the cultural aspects or dating aspects of the USA. I would live to focus on the very important financial aspects as well, which especially applies for location independent entrepenuers.
Even if suddenly USA became paradise, I would have to pay $20k+ more in taxes on my online business as I would no longer qualifying for the
FEIE
Staying abroad I save money 5 different ways
1. No car, gas, insurance etc.
2. No lease
3. No bills
4. Lower general cost of living staying in poorer countries
5. Much lower taxes taking advantage of loop holes like FEIE and others
I stash thousands of dollars away each month towards my future, approaching tens of thousands of dollars as my business is rapidly growing.
If I live in New York City to maintain an acceptable lifestyle all the money would go towards cost of living and whatever is left over would go to tax, leading to an inevitable cycle of making money and spending it.
If i lived in the USA I would have to either drastically lower my lifestyle, or basically not save any money towards my future. Neither sound very good as I want to build such a massive nest egg that by the time I'm 35 i'm basically retired and to do that with passive income I have to keep pumping money into my savings.
Money, or the need of it and the need to make it is one of the many ways society controls us. The sooner your passive income from your savings is way higher then what you would make from working, the sooner you are free to worry about other shit. Its not that money is "that" important, its for the reason that its not something that you want to focus on your entire life that is best to knock that shit out of the way as fast as possible.
If you can do it while maintaining a good lifestyle, even better, and living abroad allows for this if you work online.
Also find the USA boring as fuck. Also dating market for very short men is awful in USA, or maybe just the dating market sucks in general. Not that i'm swimming in pussy in Mexico or Brazil but at least I have a fighting shot. Actually take that back I am swimming in pussy when in Mexico lol.
Also add to the fact that most cities in the USA have weather that is either way too hot or way too cold a lot of months.
I could still tolerate all that but I couldn't tolerate paying tens of thousands extra in taxes fuck that.