Please visit the cities or countries you have in mind first, because I don't see a single country in the West which is still appealing, maybe Switzerland (Lausanne is great but not Geneva). Here in France you need luck and money to live in a city without too much violence and crime but with good business opportunities. It consumes your mind to be exposed to such ugliness on a daily basis.

It's funny because I'm afraid to raise my kids here and I'm thinking to move to Russia (or Switzerland) to avoid them to study in a Western city (they already speak Russian).