Armel
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I don't mean the literal wilderness. Some Canadian landscapes are actually very impressive.
I mean the Canadian equivalents of places like Wigan - which combine vacant town centres with utterly soulless oceans of suburban carparks, and fading identikit malls and strip plazas, none of which have even the slightest bit of distinction from the hundreds of other suburban wastelands exactly like them.
Canada looks like somebody was playing SimCity and then got bored and just started pressing the CTRL + V key.
After the war, it basically plagiarised the United States' racist geography, such that at least 80% of it is functionally uninhabitable without spending hours every day in a car.
Outside of the mountains (which are thousands of kilometres from where almost all Canadians live) and at most about ten towns or cities, it is devoid of any sense of history or place. It is urban purgatory.
Try purchasing food or clothing in Southwestern Ontario some time, and you'll be singing "Can I Get a Widnes?" before the hour's out ; )
Ah okay. I had somehow misinterpreted your post as in that you grew up on a ranch somewhere in Canada and you didn't enjoy the experience. What you describe sounds grim. I don't know a lot about Canada. Those people of Destination Canada make it sound more rosy when they try their recruiting over here. I also don't know anything about Wigan tbh; for all I know it has a somewhat undeserved bad reputation like Molenbeek (have been there a lot; contrary to Dailymail opinion it's not full of Jihadi's and actually quite pleasant over large parts).