Is it better to live in the U.S. or somewhere else right now?

I think the answer to this questions mostly has to do with the ages of the people we are talking about. For example, if you are under around 40 years of age likely any country you choose to go to might be okay or not. However, if you are over 40 or 50 years of age you might be much better off here in the U.S.

For a younger person opportunities are not what they once were here in the U.S. If you get a good education unless it is paid for you will be paying back your student loans into your 40s or 50s or beyond which also might prevent you from ever owning a house or even traveling the world.

One of the ways my generation of college students were able to travel the world is that we bought land out in the country and built our own homes ourselves. In this way we didn't ever have to get a mortgage and so we could travel the world more than most people today.

But, it is also true that land was much more affordable then than now too because the housing crisis has made land in some states unbelievably more expensive especially for younger people to buy.

I was able to buy 2 1/2 acres of really beautiful land (without electricity or phone service) for around 8000 dollars with a beautiful view of Mount Shasta and pine and cedar and oak trees and some manzinita on it as well as a running spring of water there too. today this would not be possible. So, the same land could run as much as 30,000 to 100,000 dollars if the land was undeveloped at all for the same 2 1/2 acres.

Part of the reason for this change is solar power is now reasonable and the other reason is cell phones are now available in this area too. These two changes make land that is remote more and more expensive even though a friend who recently passed away out there on his 2 1/2 acres had 12 feet of snow outside his house until April or may of 2022. So, the snow (some years) can be quite a factor too.

The point is that buying land or even a house is much more difficult now than then. Also, the cost of building materials is much much more than then in 1980 too because this is now 45 years ago at present. 

Because of the cost of education and student loans it is debatable whether incurring those loans is helpful or not to a good life here on earth unless your parents are paying for your college education.

Also, the Tariffs on Canadian Lumber could make Timber (Douglas Fir) to build houses with cost 25% more too which will discourage even more people from building new houses here in the U.S.

For example, People in the Los Angeles county fires might have to pay 25% more for lumber from Canada to build their homes. If their insurance doesn't pay that 25% more then that lumber will be out of their pockets or not at all so the homes will not be finished unless people can cough up the money to rebuild their homes. 

So, besides the people who didn't have insurance which is around 40% of the people who were unable or who couldn't afford insurance whose homes burned down now the people with insurance might not be covered completely for rebuilding those homes because of tariffs on Canadian lumber to rebuild their homes.

So, is it better to live here in the U.S. or in other countries?

I think it depends upon the other countries and whether you can speak the language there and whether you can make a living there.

However, it appears that most of the world including the U.S. could get more and more unstable so almost anything can and will happen everywhere on earth.

So, the point is always be ready to move in an emergency if you are not living here in the U.S. and even here we don't know how stable different areas of the U.S.are going to be either during the next 4 years time.