Suggestions are always good, but if you really plan on doing something as big as permanently moving, do a lot i mean a lot of research yourself, then visit the area if you can and talk and talk and talk to as many locals as you can, they will know that place better than any news article or other peoples experience.
Also are you not maybe being picky as i mean you cant have everything you want, and tbh i don't think many people like or completely agree with there government, but thats life dude it sucks sometime and there are much worse and really corrupt governments so i wouldn't say the U.S gov is fucked up, actually far from it, they let there people have what they want to a certain extent , you think in any other place they would have a vote to decide wether to allow weed or many other things lol governments like to control people and the U.S allows a heck of lot of freedom, travel around the world and you'll see actual fucked up places, but seriously dude the U.S is a great country, i mean i've wanted to move there since i was little and still will as soon as i can. I definitely don't agree with a lot of stuff they enforce, and at federal level weed is illegal so basically everyone on this site don't like at least one thing about the U.S government, but you'll probably dislike more about other countries and there laws/rules than you will dislike about U.S.
No country is perfect but IMO the USA is a lot closer than other countries are.