Albania LOVES Americans. There's a bunch of history that boils down to America helped make Albania and Kosovo exist. There are statues here of a bunch of former US presidents. Americans even get better visas than anyone else. It's a 1 year automatic visa on arrival. If you don't apply for a residency permit in that year, you have to leave for 90 days, then you can stay for another year.
Albania is still developing. Everything has a little more friction than in the US. Quick examples; no Amazon, no real freeways, no drive thrus. The bureaucracy is very much like "papers please". There aren't a lot of local jobs. The language is hard to learn fluently, but it's possible to get by day to day with a few phrases and Google translate.
The people are amazing. The food is great. The entire country is beautiful. If you stay out of Tirana, rent is really affordable. Every time you meet someone, they'll ask why you're here because everyone wants to move to America.
Carefully curating you watch history is key. I try to check mine once per week and pull out anything that causes me to get angry about something. Basically if it's not a video that teaches me how to do something, I remove it.