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Principle

Your environment influences you thus, before considering changing it, ones has to consider if the environment itself is the right one based on his or her own objectives. Note that this is the place to live, not to travel to.

Result

...eh, still in France so far ;)

Prioritized list of criteria

current and future access to resources (including energy and water)
1. thus including not just access
  1. geological situation
2. but also sustainability
  1. and the local trophic web
structure of the political system
peace maintained, including history of foreign policies
1. including geographical position
situation in the economical system
1. viewed as a network, there is no isolated agent (even with embargo)
life expectancy and medical care
respect of human rights
structure of the educational system
presence of places to foster creativity and culture
presence of entrepreneurship incubators
R&D expenditure
...
Difficulty of speaking the language
Culture compatibility

Terms like "quality of life" are too generic and not quantifiable and should thus be avoided.

Personal experiences

France
UK (Bath)
Canada (Montreal)
Brazil (Curitiba)
US (Berkeley/New-York)

Places I want to visit

New-Zealand
Scandinavia (beside Iceland)
new micro-states
1. Projetautonomieenergetique#UtopianProjects (some are an overlay of existing structure thus with no political independence)

Do not choose, Create.

It is rational to consider this option despite it's apparent complexity as if the existing choices are fundamentally conflicting with your model, innovation even with its high cost is required.

recover discussions with CyberBunker former creators, platform projects, etc.
Look for Geopolitical edition of Legal Strategies, Springer 2010
provide a template and a process to repeat it
1. geopolitical and juridical process
  1. history of state creation
    1. phylogeny of the problems encountered
2. institutions involved
3. competitive advantage
  1. list of the existing alternatives
  2. Open Government
notes
- space is already legislatively regulated
- overlay is possible without possessing physical land
Wikipedia:Temporary Autonomous Zone and Wikipedia:Pirate utopia discovered in CriticalPlay#Chapter6
Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias by Peter Ludlow, The MIT Press 2001

Tools

Worldometers statistics and data from the most reputable national and international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, OECD and others.
place finder : Who's Your City? by Richard Florida, author of The Creative Class
- Richard Florida, Authors@Google 2008
2009 Quality of Life Index by International Living
Worldwide Cost of Living by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Public Data Explorer by Google
Factblog by OECD
per country
- New-Zealand
  - Market Trends, Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ)
Worldmapper collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
Global Earthquake Model (GEM)
Interactive Infographic of the World's Best Countries Newsweek August 2010

Critics

unrooting for neo-liberal flexibility
- yet your "default" place could be justified solely by propaganda (eventually called history or patriotism) rather than rational decision

Inspired by

the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Whos Your City? by Richard Florida
my n^th discussion on the topic

To check

research in Aus/NZ
1. http://www.waikato.ac.nz/sasd/postgraduate/first_enquiries.shtml (domestic tuitition rates)
  1. http://www.ac.nz/study/subjects/pubp.shtml
2. http://www.aut.ac.nz/research
Better World Flux - where progress flows

Empire Me by Paul Poet, 2011

games
1. http://www.CyberNations.net
2. http://www.NationStates.net

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