One thing I've been thinking recently is...even if you don't actually MOVE somewhere (or get a second passport or something), even just, say, VISITING a place that you may think of as a refuge, will give you an edge. It'll give you some information, and take away the complete unfamiliarity of a place. You'll meet some people.

I read a really interesting book a while back and just re-read it recently, it's I Will Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer. It's the diary of a Jewish professor in Nazi Germany with an "Aryan" wife, so he was a little bit protected but in the end, not really.

Anyway, for years, all throughout the book, in the 1930's he's dithering around, constantly debating whether he should leave Germany or not, what it would be like, if he would have enough money, if he could learn another language.