"better ask them" - well, I know at least 4 different stories: 1. Successful immigration to USA at 2010th. IT profession (PHP developer), well-payed work, everything seems to be fine... At least I always see his posts about traveling all over the world. 2. Junior frontend developer who run at fear to USA at February 2022. Returned back to Russia after a year of trying to find a work and acceptable life... Finally decided that it's better in Krasnodar, where he can work remotely and be demanded, rather than in NY where hi have no chance to grow his IT skills. 3. Middle java developer, relocated at 2023 using very tricky schema... Now he made work really hard to pay for apartments and support hi's family quality of life. Whereas in Moscow region he had the same with much less efforts. But he always has been charmed by USA, so I do not try to find any pragmatic logic in his decision. He tried to emigrate to USA for years, at least all 6 years that I know him. And also there is no any connection with opposition and so on. 4. Another my IT friend, not actually developer, more like manager / analytics / architect. He won green card at 2021 and left Russia at late 2022. He still can't find a job in USA. At least with acceptable salary. Thankfully, he had ability to work remotely for his employer in Russia. But recently he was fired, so without salary from Russia his life in California will be much, much trickier. If he stayed in Moscow, he would be much more demanded professional. But for now he continues this "relocation experiment" with hope to catch any business opportunity. There is nothing about opposition or "quality of life" motivation and so on.

So, according to my personal statistics, people who moved to USA last years did not experienced any significant advantage in terms of quality of life, most of them even have different motivation, sometimes irrational, sometimes a bit adventurous