From: http://thesaker.is/why-do-i-live-in-the-usa/
Date: 2018 Nov 27

.....  let me explain why I live in the USA.

Simply put, it is my legal right.  I am a Swiss citizen married to a US citizen.  When I married my wife she got a “C Permit” in Switzerland and the USA gave me a “Green Card”. These two countries have an agreement, ? contract, if you want, which allows US nationals married to a Swiss national to live in Switzerland and a Swiss national married to a US national to live in the USA.   This agreement is similar to say, airlines sharing passenger seats or hotels sharing rooms.  To make my point eve simpler: I live in the USA because the US government decided that it would be in the interest of the American people to have such an agreement with Switzerland.  You could also say that it is my wife’s right to have her husband with her while living in her own country.

None of that implies any kind of endorsement of anything, any big expressions of gratitude or any other ideological or emotional dimension.

In my case, it was really simple: I was blacklisted in my own country and I could not find work.  My wife’s degrees were not recognized in Switzerland.  So we moved to the USA were she could work and I could homeschool our kids.  I am now putting them through college and have no intention of leaving until their personal situation stabilizes.

None of that implies that life in the USA is “better” than in Switzerland in any way.  It just means that in my personal case it was more convenient for my family to live in a country I was not blacklisted just like Snowden prefers to live in Russia not because Russia is “better” but because in Russia he is not persecuted by the government.

By the way, I could have applied for US citizenship years ago, but I have no interest or desire to do so simply because I want to remain what I am today a “legal alien” – that status and even this otherwise weird expression suits me perfectly.

As for Russia, I have no more obligation to live there than the millions of Russians which have lived outside Russia for a variety of reasons.  This is especially true in my case since I was already born abroad (in Switzerland) and that it was my great-grandparents who left Russia after the Revolution.  I am a 4th generation émigré, before me my family lived in Serbia, Germany, Argentina and Holland.

How any of the above could be pertinent to what I write, the positions I take or the arguments I present is beyond me. ........