If one or both my kids decides they want to try to emigrate, the one thing I would advise them is to think about what they'd do if the new place develops intolerable problems down the road. It's a lot easier to start from scratch in a new country when you're 20, still in the process of building your adult life and learning to be an adult in your surrounding culture than it is when you're 40, 50, or 60 and have set down roots. (Of course, in some ways it's a lot easier to stay and fight when you're young and idealistic than when you've had 30 years of the long defeat.)