The average American moves almost 12 times in their lifetime. According to a recent Yahoo! Finance post, over 700,000 Americans receive their Social Security benefits abroad. Many Americans want to live in new locales and take advantage of preferential currency exchanges that could make their dollars last a lifetime. Almost six out of 10 Americans want to live abroad due to the current political environment.
However, moving somewhere new, especially on a whim, may not solve your problems; it may compound them. Some cities heavily romanticized by Americans are actually under continual threat of imminent collapse, either ecologically, politically, or economically.
