@kaia If you want to live away from the large cities along the US border and have the kind of jobs that allow for it, then things are different, yes. Like I just checked what houses are for sale in the small city I was born in, a region in the middle of my province, and there's a 2 story 4 bedroom house with a gigantic yard available for 100k EUR. https://www.remax-quebec.com/en/house-for-sale-saguenay-lac-st-jean/5431-du-pont-nord-alma-61995.rmx
But these kind of regions are very isolated from the "international" lifestyle; that region is over 5 hour drive from Montreal, the closest international airport. Of course, in your case there'd also be the language barrier, but you would find places like that also in english canada, remote regions where life is cheap and people not quite as crazy from the city lifestyle.
If you want to stick to the more densely populated areas along the southern border, the housing market is overheating these days.
@kaia I'm not sure why you would go from Germany to Canada. If you're thinking of leaving Germany because the government and people went full crazy during COVID, I regret to tell you it's pretty much the same here. As for the rest, from what I gather it's pretty much the same but just slightly less so. People are nice, but they prioritize group cohesion over having any sort of principles.
Guns are perhaps a bit more available than in most European countries, but it always keep trending in the more bans/less rights because there is no support for them in the population at all; no big lobby fighting for it.
@lebronjames75@coolboymew I think the point is more so that people remember the hypocrisy and feel more ashamed next time they're told to support the US bombing wherever they want to bomb next.
@Moon This is a movie with a talking dinosaur, yet the most implausible thing in the movie is that someone thought they could cast Whoopi Goldberg as an action star.
@Moon@lain There's a couple of timed while Mitsu was here where her spanish came in useful to communicate with people. If it comes in handy in Montreal, I can imagine it could be useful almost everyday in the southern US.
@suetanvil@Arcana@lain@cereal@kaia They already have facial recognition based unlock, that's what Windows Hello is. It works pretty well. And apparently they recommend manufacturers add hardware privacy shutters to their cameras, so it's not meant to be always on.