ALL are going to be extremely hard to emigrate to (as an American) unless you are relatively young and have fairy specific skill set (as most all have openings only if you can work in a 'shortage defined' skilled placement)
Obviously ALL have large flaws, none are perfect, but all are overall better run politically from top to bottom (and many are far more diverse than the average American thinks, especially Sweden) IMHO than the US. All of these are also very expensive to live in for the most part.
In order of how well they are politically run:
New Zealand (Grey Lynn in Auckland is wonderful)
Switzerland (wide variety of choices, love Lausanne, love Zurich, big downside, CRAZY expensive)
Norway (Oslo is only city we would consider, as IF we wanted a smaller city, we would just stay in Sweden (in Sweden: Lund is great, Uppsala as well, superb small cities and both have ancient, world class unis) CRAZY expensive, but the wages are massive)
Denmark (Copenhagen FTW, Aarhus is wonderful (smaller) too)
Sweden (where I live) (would be number 3 except for our somewhat disastrous refugee policy from 2003-2015, which has allowed the far right Sweden Democrats a foothold in the Riksdag, our parliament, albeit with no true power as of yet, and hopefully that never changes)
Finland (the only nation on the list we would never consider moving to, as all the other Nordics offer a higher quality of life for us)
Canada (only place there we would consider moving to is Vancouver (CRAZY expensive see a trend? lolol), take that area away, and it's off the list)
The Netherlands (prefer Rotterdam to Amsterdam but both are superb)
Austria (Vienna is the only place we would live in there, it offers an astounding level in terms of quality of life)
Belgium (would be higher except they have such large issues with political dichotomous tensions between the Walloons & the Flemish, we love Antwerp over Brussels, but both are wonderful)
Australia (too RW at times to rate higher, but we adore Melbourne (we almost moved to St Kilda), and Sydney is great too, Perth is too isolated)
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