I live in Puerto Rico. Moving from here to the mainland is not a step up in quality of life, I can assure you.
To each their own (really; I wish you well if you have a good life there), but the emigration pattern is clear [1] [2].
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/us/puerto-rico-migration-data...
[2] https://nacla.org/news/2018/02/22/puerto-rico%E2%80%99s-fore...