I know 2 of the 5 AES (China and North Korea) have a nearly no-immigration policy, but what about the other three?
knew a guy who lived there for a decade. loved it. you can live in Cuba pretty openly, but you won't have legal status as a national unless you marry somebody.
that basically means you can't own a home or be majority owner of a business and you can only be listed on a joint bank account with an actual national.
so if you meet someone you can trust with everything, you can totally do it. otherwise, you'll be kinda marginal status. but the guy was like that and loved it.
**EDIT: dude was a US citizen, from NY. I spent about 2 weeks down there and there doesn't seem to be much popular or institutional distrust of regular ass Americans. people were all pretty jazzed I was from the states, because most honky visitors are from like Europe or Canada. all the fear and aggression is coming from the US.
people rent out rooms/reaudences all the time there. yes there are landlords in Cuba, but as no person can own more than one residences, that means the most wealthy, hustlegrind one is someone who is married and lives with their spouse in one unit and rents out the other. and there are controls on what they can charge, and the government takes like 33% of it.
i know of people who have moved to Cuba I assume it's a no Americans deal though lol
You can just buy a visa to laos at the border and go right in. You can stay 90 days then have to leave for a day or two but then you can come back. So, pretty typical policy. Not sure as to permanent residence. It's chill as fuck there and I doubt anyone would care, especially outside of major tourist areas like vang vieng. You could probably live out the rest of your days in pakse without anyone saying shit to you, but you'd have to learn the language.
There's a Norwegian guy who owns a hostel in vang vieng actually and lives there so it's definitely possible.
You can get work visas in china as long as you're sponsored btw thats how all the teachers go over. Then once you're there you can just get another job since you have a work permit. Some folks open businesses and become lifers. It's definitely not shut off like DPRK. Probably the easiest one to move to out of your list tbh because there's plenty of companies with active business interests in the west and lots of folks speak English.
