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Comments like this is why people ignore economists when it comes to personal finance.

Macroeconomics is so difficult to grasp for me and feels so far away from anything that is remotely related to my life that just talking about it feels silly.

The amount of capital in the US or even my state feels like completely divorced from whether I feel comfortable having children and raising a family (I don't at all).

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Sure! But when the question is "Is country x rich or poor" it's hard to gauge it any other way than using macroeconomics.

"How would you feel living in country X" and "how does a person in a similiar position as myself feel living in country X" is quite personal question and probably quite detached from macroeconomics unless comparing countries with wildly different GDP:s.

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