"A. Melon" wrote:
...it seems the best options are to simply leave the country.... So my question is: where to go? I certainly don't want to leave behind all the neat toys in the US like widespread broadband internet access...
StarBand (http://starband.com/) is expanding internationally. It will soon be available in Latin America, for example. Plus, broadband is available in many countries already.
...massive bookstores...
Amazon.com, plus massive bookstores are fairly common outside the US. Even Singapore has its MPH chain of bookstores. ...high paying tech jobs... You ARE telecommuting already, right? I have a friend who lives on a private island in Florida. He collects Silicon Valley wages while having a rural cost of living. There are extreme telecommuters working out of Bali. S a n d y