Felt that, we'd head to Canada if we truly had a choice.

I have a cousin who has mapped out countries the least likely to be attacked/with the kindest visa rules

If? You mean when!

You are banking for everything to go right and not be affected by changes. I mean good luck

To an extent.

But if you have any brain power you would accumulate money so you dont have to perform tricks with espresso machines to pay rent. There are plenty of geniuses in the graveyard who died poor.

There are plenty of rich men in there also.
Money doesn't get you a pass.
Focus on happiness, like when my daughter see the nice gift I got her.

Having money is happiness also. With it you can buy her that expresso machine without going through the trouble of trading women's purses and hoping there is a sucker who will take that trade.

Never understood why people are so binary with money its either you are happy or rich can't have it both ways.

Must be some kind of perpetual myth they like to tell themselves.

I've tasted 9-5 and I've tasted unemployment I recommend not being born

I don't know aboot others, but I always felt money was a scam.
Very similar to dangling a carrot in front of an ass to make it take another step.
I just never wanted to be the ass.

An ass can take his chances out in the wild with the wolves and no shelter from the rain. His admission price for having a cozy shed a guaranteed meal and protection from the farmer is that he has to do some plowing.

Just like your admission to live in a civilized nation is taxes. If you feel like society owes you free lunch join communists or other freeloaders hippies and see how far that takes you.

Money is simply a convenient currency neither good or bad.

I see it as a measure of how much value you have provided