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Where is the best country to be an academic?

i'm british and want to go into academia. having paid attention to recent strikes it seems like academics in the uk get a pretty raw deal. obviously nobody will have experience of everywhere in the world, but where is generally considered the best place to be an academic? US/Canada? Continental Europe? Somewhere else entirely? Thanks

I am talking specifically with regards to job security, ease of progression, pay, etc.
gpt
In the 80's Thatcher plunged the knife into the UK academy's back with the destruction of tenure and the top-down, mandatory, management-consulting derived metric-obsession that ruins everyone's life from faculty to dean and beyond.

the UK academy has been bleeding to death ever since.