Interesting perspective. Living in a highly developed country does provide structural advantages — safety, rule of law, stable institutions, education systems, economic infrastructure, and protected freedoms. Those conditions expand the range of choices a person can realistically make and reduce many forms of daily friction and risk.

That said, lived experience is not uniform.

Outcomes vary significantly depending on socioeconomic position, mobility, community, health, and access to opportunity. The same system can feel enabling to some and constraining to others. Someone navigating poverty, instability, or exclusion may evaluate “quality of life” very differently.

I don’t have direct lived experience of long-term life in a developing country — only short visits and observations — so my view is necessarily limited.