@notjustbikes I've been travelling over the past number of years and while I agree there are gripes, Canada is far from a backwater. I found oddities in Europe and Japan easily either far oversold (tech in Japan is hardly as 100% cutting edge as pop culture makes it seem), and European rail options were not nearly as universally connected as pop culture makes it seem.
In both places I ended up needing to do pretty much exactly what I'd do in Canada to move, talk, travel. With costs being cheaper here and higher there ending up being a wash