When I traveled in Europe - Italy and Germany - I didn't come across a single person that didn't know English. I know it's not a long term solution because you don't want to look like a tourist for the rest of your life but I wouldn't consider language to be insurmountable considering you could pick it up over time once you were there.

I know Canada isn't in Europe, but it has everything you've mentioned, plus some other advantages:

- open immigration policy: if you meet the criteria, you're in (i.e., no country/region quotas).

- You already speak 50% of the national languages.

- Your average Canadian arch-conservative would be slightly left of center if s/he were in American politics.

- The place is huge and diverse; you'll be able to find a town/city in which you'd enjoy living.

- Roughly speaking, American educational degrees transfer directly, so if a job in Canada requires a Bachelor's degree, they'll take an American BS/BA without having to get your degree "certified" (but there are exceptions to this rule).

- There is a general "meh, who cares?" attitude about religion here. There are lots of churches and religious people, but public religiosity is much reduced over what you get in the States.

It's not all roses, though:

- many goods and services here are more expensive than in the US (sometimes for not apparent good reason): alcohol and cigarettes are heavily taxed. Cell phones are quite a bit more expensive here (this is one of the "no good reason" areas). As a counterpoint, you don't pay tax on most of your food (anything that is not single serving; so a can of pop or an entree in a restaurant would be taxed, but a loaf of bread is not).

- some services are reduced (no mail delivery on Saturdays, so if you don't get it Friday, you won't have it for three more days).

- gas is more expensive (currently $1.10/litre where I am; that's $4.15/gal).

- you'll have to get comfortable with metric (but you'd have to do that in Europe, too).

Other than being white and english speaking? ^_^ me no thinks so

If you become a citizen, you won't have a visa anymore and can get a Canadian passport; the passport may or may not have info on its record about being an immigrant; I don't know.

Are you thinking of eventually ending up in the land of cigars, good rum and illegal American detention centres? You could probably do that with a Canadian passport.

Ha! Sometimes in the same province. BC has both rain forests and a desert. Summertime highs of 40C (that's ~103F for the Americans) vs summertimes highs of 18C (64F).

I didn't mention anything about the economy, because I think that the whole North American economy is in for a drop. As they say, the US sneezes and Canada gets a cold.

This is a good example of the much-vaunted Canadian sense of humour; in this instance, this is using understatement for humourous effect.

I think if you look at the past couple years you'll see the US dollar falling through a pit and out dollar going  from being in the range of worth 65 cents on the US dollar to being worth more than the US dollar recently.

There is still a lot of reliance there, but it has proven to stand strong in the wake of the softwood lumber dispute and the beef bans which are two of our biggest exports into the US historically.

Well, fuck.

Anyway, I hear Vancouver is nice.  I just soooo want to retire where it's warm.