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What might help is making a comprehensive list of things you're looking for a in a country, assign importance to each of those things and then see which country rates highest in the important categories.
Going of you post I'd say:
And I'd also add a couple of more (and if you start thinking about it, you'll probably come up with a lot more):
Apart from doing this, I'd also gather a lot of anecdotal data from people who live in those countries and especially people who moved to those countries or studied there.
Also keep in mind that sometimes, what you are looking for in a country is highly correlated with people being from elsewhere. So the people will be the kind of people who are "willing to move for reason X" and those tend to be interesting people. If that is the case for you, as it is for me, you have to increase importance of multicultural metropolitan areas, and decrease the importance of big cities which almost have no foreigners.