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I'll share what my friends who moved there (and eventually left) told us.

1. You'll always be an foreigner there and you'll feel it. It's not racism exactly, just a sense of coolness and mild outsiderism.
2. Outside of Amsterdam culture gets pretty prim and conservative. Inside Amsterdam culture is liberal, but weird. Read Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City.
3. The Dutch are not rude, but they are more direct than many cultures. That directness can feel abrasive and, like abrasion, wear you down over time.

No. I would never. MAYBE Quebec, but I don't speak any French, so that's not really a possibility.

I would have to go like three generations back on my father's side to find someone not born in the United States and potentially four generations back on my mother's side.

The closest connection that I have to Italy is that I once purchased https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Spoon-New-Kitchen/dp/0714862568 because I find conversations about ethnic authenticity in food weird and problematic and I wanted to gain a better understanding of what people eat at home in other countries. Where I grew up in New Jersey, it's not uncommon for arguments to break out over which red sauce joint has the most authentic lasagna or some other inane dish and that always made me roll my eyes.

Ireland seems cool but I've never been and similarly, I think that a lot of the way Irish culture is celebrated in the United States is also problematic.

My paternal great-grandfather used to tell people he was Yugoslavian and when I learned about history, thought that was interesting because Yugoslavia wasn't a country when he was born and beyond that, not much is known and information can only really be inferred. I suspect that it's possible he identified as being Yugoslavian as a way to virtue signal, especially with tensions that occurred after WW1 and WW2. It's also possible that he believed his own ethnicity to be so mixed that he didn't feel a particular kinship with any particular ethnicity. I know that he attended an Orthodox church of some sort in the US (most likely the Serbian Orthodox Church). So, it's possible that he was Serbian but there was other evidence to suggest Austrian, Croatian, and Hungarian ethnic ties to. Nonetheless, I don't have any cultural connection there.

IIRC it's hard for Americans to own property in Mexico, on top of everything else.

I recommend reading Why We Left: An Anthology of Women Expats. It's got the good and the bad about relo to Mexico: an eye opener.

> Lolol, you joke but a BUNCH of people asked me "Which one?" when I told them I lived in Korea for five years.

Hey, it’s not entirely unheard of. There’s this book titled “A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom,” by Felix Abt:

https://www.amazon.com/Capitalist-North-Korea-Hermit-Kingdom/dp/0804849676/