If you barely speak the language, it's not easy. Unfortunately many countries have made immigration so hard, in an effort to combat it, that they've done the opposite - people immigrate illegally because it has a higher success rate than doing it legally.

If I apply for X, Y, and Z and I'm denied, I'm fucked. But if I just move... And then figure it out later... That might work better.

And that's how we got into this mess. A lot of this anti-immigration legislation actually increases the incentives for illegal immigration.

I, a software engineer with decades of experience, and now an entrepreneur having a small startup, with funds to live for years without burdening the public purse anywhere, specking virtually native level English, and having previously lived in the US for years, would still have a _very_ hard time immigrating to any western country right now, partly because I'm from the global south (I'm Ghanaian).

If you know of any western country where moving there, even temporarily, is as simple as applying with my information, let me know.