If I was under 30 I'd conciser doing a working holiday in New Zealand, which gives you 12 months and lets you work, and gives you a chance to get a job that you can transition into a longer term residence visa and eventually a permanent one. Not really a sure thing though. And yea lots of other countries have working holiday visas, generally targeted at graduates.

I've researched immigrating to Germany and it's odd, there's a bureaucratic puzzle there but the requirements are all much less than other countries. It's worth a look, and people have just gotten on a plane to Germany and then figured out the rest from there.

All of this takes money tho. And yea I keep my passport handy so I can get the fuck out of the country if I need to, all this bureaucratic stuff is mostly just about staying more than three months and being able to work.