What would it take for you to move to another country?

[Santander]

Boredom. I do it all the time.

[Santander]

China's corrupt, authoritarian government is a big turnoff for me. It's not the only issue I have with the country, but a big one nonetheless. I'm not sure how a politically active person with my set of beliefs is supposed to fit in there.

There's always Taiwan

Hong Kong is great, too! (but weird, politically)

And for the really elite among us there's always Macau.

(Which brings up the interesting observation that nobody has mentioned "tax evasion" and the like as reasons yet.)

The US is one of the few countries that exercises the immoral practice of worldwide taxation on its subjects (i.e. US persons as defined by the IRS), so this is largely impossible to do legally. It is also illegal to renounce US citizenship for tax purposes, and renunciation of citizenship typically results in a quasi-lifetime ban from the US.

[Santander]

Every young white American should spend at least six months to a year in East Asia (preferably Greater China) doing anything but teaching English or some "save the world" kind of bullsh**t. (real expat job/secondment, foreign service, international internship, academic program, etc.) Everyone I know who's done it is a far more developed individual than those who have not. I say white because anyone who is not white will have a miserable time due to the extreme levels of racism in those countries.