Factors that influence decision-making include levels of functioning infrastructure, literacy and mobile phone usage rates.
It does not have - and may never have - the sedate serenity and boringly functioning infrastructure of, say, Prague or Budapest.
But without any functioning infrastructure, all this agricultural potential is moot.
The effects of having a job, income and a healthy living environment with functioning infrastructure are naturally important to a person's contentment.
More than two decades of civil war and anarchy have left the country of 10 million with little functioning infrastructure.
Such conditions are likely to result in low crime levels, functioning infrastructure and easily available recreational activities.
It is a challenge to rebuild the country, and I believe we need aid and private investment to the tune of about $20bn-25bn20bn-25bne-proof housing, a functioning infrastructure, agriculture, energy and environmental programmes.
"In so-called liberated areas it's been difficult to restore functioning infrastructure," said St-Pierre, "that's why we're talking about a generational problem now, the structural problems, the financial problems, this is going to take years to fix".
Systemic water issues, supply problems, health issues and inadequate, poorly functioning infrastructure requiring attention from local authorities have been identified.
We deserve functioning infrastructure, a fair playing field, and perhaps some decent healthcare for when things go wrong.
A massive undertaking of that kind -- which would, incidentally, needlessly replicate the already-functioning infrastructure of Medicare -- would require billions of dollars.
