Financial considerations aside, I would consider moving abroad if I could find somewhere that really would make as happy and content as SA. Climate. Language. Sport. Infrastructure. Food. Everything plays a role and quite honestly I can't find somewhere that meets all my needs. Maybe I'm just picky, but please, where else is the world can you get what SA can offer? And I'm not talking about crime. I mean, where in one country can you go see elephants and lions walking in the wild freely and still speak english and/or afrikaans? Or drive for 6 hours and go swim on some of the worlds' best beaches? Or go skiing on some mountain slopes in the winter? Or have a braai with some boeries and chops with mates drinking a balck label? Or go to a rugby stadium with your mates and lots of biltong? Or go to the west coast and enjoy the namaqualand? Or go up to the Kalahari and enjoy the desert scenery. Or go to Mpumalanga and enjoy the beauty of the mountains and forests there? And what about being able to go wine testing on some of the best wines in the world and then go to the top of the world's most recognisable mountain in cable car and afterwards enjoy sundowners on Camp's Bay?
I could answer most of those questions for you - honestly.
Australia can probably offer you most of those - including the braais, if you find yourself in a community with a lot of expats (there's a town on the North Coast which has a pretty large expat population I've heard). Climate is identical in most respects, they speak English, which honestly is the only language I even speak these days (I dumped Afr as my first language when I left school), they have pretty epic beaches, they are sport fanatics about the same sports (meaning you can still go to the stadiums with your mates), you can go braai with any of the millions of expats you find there, their infrastructure, education, medical, legal systems are in much better condition than ours.
And as much as everybody in SA seems to hate the Aussies, I wonder if anyone has ever considered that maybe it is because they share so many similarities to us. Maybe I'm generalising a lot, but I've spent time with some Aussies, and apart from the accents, it was pretty much like spending time with a group of South Africans. Especially once they get boozed up.
Australia also, surprisingly enough, has quite a robust wining industry - perhaps not world class like SA's, but I don't drink wine, so it doesn't bother me in particular.
A couple of things are endemic, certainly, they don't have Table Mountain, elephants, lions and so on, but they have Ayer's Rock, the Great Barrier Reef, kangaroos and friggin Koalas. Who doesn't like Koalas?
I understand the argument you're making DenSweep, and I think it's great that you have pride in the country - but every country is unique in it's own way, and every country has things to offer that others don't. But for me, the benefits of living in a first world country would outweigh the benefits of staying here - and I would also be free of the constant news of corruption, crime, tenderpreneurship, lying and contradicting government officials, racial rhetoric and Julius Malema.
[EDIT] Actually - get rid of Malema, and I might change my mind a bit
our country is so full of rich diversity and we need to embrace that and never let go. positive things happen to people who are positive and also do something to show other people that they are positive so that they could also become positive 
