Yeah, one has to evaluate the odds of victory, or at least progress inside of a 50 year timeline to be motivated to do it. Many people just do it out of other reasons unrelated to reality and that's a big problem. So much wasted lives.

I say better to strip the low hanging fruit first, if for only the reason of maybe next time you want to climb higher for a harder job, such as back home. My homeland is a hellscape too, and I really don't want to go back there as much as I miss my immediate family.

I believe that southeast asia is a good option, Vietnam, Singapore, Laos, Malaysia, Phillipines. I have a friend who is in Vietnam, it isn't bad there. The peninsula that ends in Singapore is probably the eastern equal to the Balkans.