The problem with living in a country that is state controlled ,is the people get the shaft, anytime there is a choice between enriching yourself or enriching everyone so everyone benefits ,the state enriches itself and says screw the people , in cuba under fidel "hows it feel to want " whereas under his brother 100% more people got basic refridgerators and half the island now has access to a microwave oven , and the trouble with cuba is Ike cut them off claiming people would get civil and human rights ( and stamping out communism in this hemisphere) it didn't work , pope Francis tricked Obamma and Castro to come to the Vatican and open relations , trump has decided B'S on that (ignorant man baby) and cuting it off again, if your young you may not remember this but look up Jonestown and people's temple and Guyana started as an agriculture commune here in the US and then Jones started declining into mental illness thought the world was out to get him , so he and followers fled to Guyana as he continued to decline and experience substance abuse it went from commune cooperating society based around agriculture to what is best for Jones and his neediness , not to spoil it for you but this is where the negative saying "drinking the koolaid" comes from, 900 people died , absolute power corrupts absolutely , very few communes work for long because somebody exploits it for all they can get , there are still one or two succesfull ones here in the US founded by the hippie culture during the 60's , all in all in most cases you comitt yourself to being oppressed or depressed because few people who make that switch ever get a chance to undo there action because once it's done you got nothing ,and nothing doesnt allow you to rejoin a society, unless of course you become a political refugee and work your way out of destitute poverty in the gutter to a better life ,but we are now in position of reverse isolationism with trumps agenda, his family emigrated here yet the guy hates immigrants , is racist as he'll, Is seeking to put women in there place (The place he has in mind is barefoot and pregnant , he has no respect for anybody )sorry to get political but this is very risky thinking when the powerfull are trying to shut down world boarders, fairly soon political refugees and victims of genocide will be stuck with no place to go. Portugal insnt bad (actually it has incredible potential , it is an up and comer to watch, if it continues on a progressive trajectory it may well be "utopian" in another 10-20 years , but if annoyone ignorant or controlling gets power the whole thing could derail in short order , you also have to wait out the shift of power scheduled to start october 15 involving "BRICS" and the IMF if things go the way they are looking there is going to be a realignment of world power , world wealth & allegiances forced onto every nation ,because "BRICS" needs to gain .1 % to have have veto power at the IMF ( the world bank) if they get that on the 15th , some major countries are going to shut off like a light switch economically, it is likely in the next year that the global economy is going to to destabilize, and the last super power being the US is going to collapse ,currently the US is the world's "reserve" currency going back to the forties the "BRICS" nations have been working under the table agreements between themselves and the IMF to stop using the dollar for all trading and promoting a new "crypto currency" if they gain veto power and use it to ban the US dollar like they want (our economy is going to go off a cliff ) so currency manipulation in the coming months may lead to major unrest worldwide (it is reasonable to expect gold to go to $10,000 an ounce or higher because many nations in "BRICS" are hoarding it, matter of fact when gold is refined into bullion bars and stored by the Swiss each bar is labeled with its date stamped into it, Swiss bankers are pretty much done transferring bullion that was refined during the Carter administration years,now mind you that means everything in the last say 40 years has been bought out and moved to Russia, China , places that when they kill the dollar and collapse the US economy and stock market they will make money off it ,it's sad crazy and realize horrible that humanity can't get it Stuff together and take care of itself because everyone is filling there pockets with lust and greed ,if all the countries stoped competing and pooled there knowledge how long would it be before we tackled and won against MI or cancer , poverty would be wiped out, if humanity committed to growth and survival for all mankind so much would improve for all , Henry Ford committed 1 million dollars back in the day when a million dollars meant something and the cure for polio came about in 24 hours , so imagine say a trillion dollars could do in 48 for all man kind to lengthen lives and tackle things that have killed millions yearly.
So a lot to think about there,another thing to thimk of is in a closed society that is supposed to care for you cradle to grave typicaly strong emotions can get you killed just as fast as speaking out about something thats not right.i spent my first 12 years living in a place that display of emotions would get you beaten and locked in a crawl space for weeks ,and sometimes the same would happen just because dad was in a bad mood ,its not fun , i definately encourage to think strongly about how you would handle that before signing up for it (hint anger , powerless,makes more anger that feeds powerlessness ,until its a powder keg and explodes ,and someone or something is never the same ,the people you love the most are your abusers and tormentors instead of loved and supported ,and everyday you want it to stop or end, and when it does you have nothing,miss the constant abuse,and have to rap your head around the fact that it was never about you , you were the victim not the perpetraitor, the decisions you make following someone/something like that will define who you are and what you do with your life the rest of your days .always have a plan "b" that's ironclad just in case plan "A" goes sideways for any reason an example off that in the early days of the space shuttle there were three giant runways ,one of them is in whitehsands New mexico thats is being reclaimed by the desert now once in awhile someone will snap a picture and ask on the net what it is or was, and it was divert site in case the shuttle had to glide back to earth ,great plan that was never utilized,therebis always a BUT until the challenger tradgedy no one thought of a crew escape hatch in case the orbiter was toast , spent millions of dollars retro fitting the remaining orbiters BUT no one ever thought about severe damage to the heat shield or making repairs in space until the one blew up on reentry because a big piece of foam hitting the leading edge wing during liftoff of the mission , so a thorough plan "b" with as many scenarios for going wrong factored in just to be safe.
Theres good and bad bad news about dead ,its nothingness you don't even know it ,it's the coming back that is problematic ,in 2013 I had a cardiac arrest in my sleep was found in bed dead and purple , was resuscitated and went into a coma ,when I thought I was waking up from having gone to bed I was emerging from a coma , that was very intresting conversation, i was no verbal yet but apparently i was making faces to my neurologist(who incidently I hated and fired 10 years ago, turned out I was wrong about the guy he was heartless ,I didn't know until I was discharged he was there on own time , he saw me brought in for resusitation and remebered i was his patient once ,scared the hell,out of him so he transferred his paying patients to his partner to hang it in my icu room "to welcome me back " he remembered i worked in a coma hospital and probably knew as much about coma as he did and was hoping to learn something,i denied everything because the things i remember, some are garbage probably from lack of oxygen and some I have proven thru my medical records to have been something that happened ,the good news is only took me about 2 years in therapy to get over the trauma from that ,my T had died during surgery and had a hard time finding someone someone to help him with it ,I got very lucky that he was experienced in what I needed to work through having done it himself, nothing worse than talking to someone who has no idea where your coming from or wear your going. I truly suspect it's very close to what suicide survivors have to resolve after they work through what got them there to try , there is mental anguish , there are death bed regrets, they are very real people often are told to get over it, or considered crackpots for talking about near death experiences, if more T would learn about it ,it would advance the dialog that were not crackpots and you font just get over it on your own, i can also say talking to walls is quite healthy when your trying to make sense of things.