Hi Jerry no I do not want to live in the U.S. I think life has seen its peak there at least for the next 20 years. I came to Costa Rica 22 years ago to leave the bad diet, bad climate, bad stress, litiguous U.S. culture. 22 years ago Costa Rica was probably the only livable Latin country. Panama had Noreiga and a pending revolution, Nicaragua was just finishing its revolt and was very insecure. Colombia was being run by Pablo Escobar and Ecuador and Peru had Marxist revolts going on.
Now all those places are better than Costa Rica, all of them and there are IMHO very few places in Latin America worse than Costa Rica., maybe Guatemala, Venezuela, Honduras probably just those 3.
So the answer to your question is no, but I would go to one of the aforementioned places.