Technology friendly countries

There are many lists out there that rank countries by various metrics and try to find which ones are the best to live in. Unfortunately, these aren't very useful, because there is heavy bias along political agendas (liberals will rank countries like Sweden highly even though they're objectively shit), censorship due to political correctness, very strong pressure from government propaganda machines to influence results, and much information is either irrelevant to a normal person, or presented in a useless way.

This page attempts to honestly list the meaningful pros and cons of living in various countries, which would relevant to a normal /tech/ user.

North America

USA

• Spying, but no censorship
• Decent internet if you're in a good state

Canada

• Lower population density
• Even more socialist than US, even more political correctness
• Higher taxes than US
• High cost of living in big cities without correspondingly high income

South and Central America

General trend is low cost of living, low income, welcoming to foreigners. Infrastructure, law, organization aren't great but serviceable. Very comfortable living can be obtained by telecommuting to earn a mediocre First World salary, which is makes you fucking rich by local standards.

Mexico

• Ok internet, worse than USA
• Cheap as fuck
• No censorship

Brazil

• HUE HUE HUE I REPORT U
• Very poor but also very low cost of living
• Very sharp rich/poor divide - you're either in a ghetto or in live like a fabled king
• Growing social divide between elites and common people, the former isolate themselves and treat the latter as if they're not even human

Scandinavia

All scandinavian countries are very cold and snowy for many months in a year. People spend a lot of time inside. There are often very few hours of daylight. This makes some people very depressed (light has a huge effect on your psychology).

Sweden

• SWEDEN YES

Eastern Europe

Russia

• One of few countries that aren't third world shitholes (eg. have electricity and running water in most places) yet aren't socially dominated by Western progressivism
• No SJW
• Government probably spies on everyone but they only care about going after political opponents
• Economy, rule of law, corruption, infrastructure (having nice stores and decent houses) improved dramatically over last 15 years
• Cheap currency, low cost of living - very nice if you have dollar income
• Very low population density, lots of secluded wilderness
  • Unfortunately such areas are really removed from civilization, it's very hard to obtain modern amenities like internet
• Cheap, fast internet with no caps or retarded restrictions, ISPs don't give a fuck what you do
• Westerners who want to visit require an invitation from a Russian (can usually be bought for a few $100) before they can even apply for a visa

Romania

• God tier internet
• Shit tier government and infrastructure
• Uses Euro unfortunately

Estonia

• God tier internet
• E-government
• Cheap
• Everyone is /g/ as fuck
• Uses Euro sadly

Far East

Japan

• Lightning fast internet, cheap too
• Government has literally no idea how to technology
• Just visit USA sites for uncensored porn

Philippines

• Muh wheels

Oceania

Australia

• Retarded government with insane big brother tendencies
• Absurd censorship laws, like banning small tits in porn because of muh child porn (even if they are clearly adult)
• Software, games, electronics are insanely overpriced due to shitty tarif system