Well, this is not necessarily a Canadian thing, more of a Urban vs Rural living.
Ever since I left the city and moved to a rural area near a town (which is growing) I have been happier. No more driving 20 to 30 km/h in 40 km/h roads due to traffic, now I leave my house and it is 100 km/h on 80 km/h roads.
I don't remember the last time I heard the firetruck or ambulance siren. The only thing that bothers me are the damn birds doing their mating calls early in the morning........ just fuck already and shut up!!
I am about 18 km away from Native land, their gas stations sell gas at 20-25 cents cheaper than other gas stations. they even introduced point cards to save even more money!!
The people here are so friendly, very willing to help. Big chain stores don't have items behind cages, except the batteries for power tools at Home Depot (Lowes competitor for the Americans) .
The only thing I have seen police do here is help with food drives and donation drives for the homeless, schools and for the police.
When I shopping, be it grocery runs or going to Canadian Tire or Home Depot, i always see a lot of families. Mothers and Fathers with their kids, also doing their shopping. Definitely a tighter community!! I feel happy for them, I feel like there is still hope. It also makes me wish I had a family of my own.
The few downsides are the lack of internet, I went with the internet from Satan (Starlink). Where I live the only options were Wifi internet from Bell or Rogers, and the nearby community a few blocks from me already had a waiting list for the Bell Wifi. If my only option was satellite internet, then Starlink is a no brainer. I made sure to turn off the wifi in the Starlink modem and let my own router deal with all the traffic. It basically doubled the speed. I'm supposed to get 150 mb down and 30 up, but often I see it spike to ~300 mb down when I am downloading something on Steam.
It is not bad when I am doing online racing on Gran Turismo 7, I often have 3 to 4 bars.
There is a project going on from the Province with a local internet provider, and they are spreading fiber around the counties. I signed up a few days ago, maybe in a year I will have fiber. Packages are 50 Cdn for 150 mbs down and up, 70 for 500 down and up and 100 dollars 1 gb down and up. I am currently paying 159 dollars to Musk. Will go for the 500 mb package, it is more than enough for me since I don't stream, just torrent movies and save it in my NAS. Love my 10 Gbps connection between my main PC and my NAS.
My water comes from the well, needs to run through a softner.
My heating is electrical baseboard heating, with a fireplace in the basement and a wood burning stove on the 1st floor. Have to prepare wood to keep the house warm and reduce electrical usage. Been planing to go with a heat pump next year or the year after. Maybe in the future get some solar panels and batteries, I just moved into the house last year, got time to do it slowly.