We pay USD $7500 a year to rent a 3 bedroom apartment on the upper floor of an up-down duplex. We have a beautiful view on all 4 sides of the Fraser river cutbanks, the Nechako river cutbanks, and the Cariboo Mountains.

Income and sales taxes are higher in Canada, but property taxes are lower. Almost every province has two parts, a densely populated strip along the American border and a vast area of wilderness, small towns, native reserves and frontier outposts to the north. The south is a socialist nightmare. The north isn't bad. It's ideal bug-out country. Still a land of opportunity.