Kool Maudit, instead of focusing on Montreal and Toronto, you should've considered Vancouver Island. It feels more like 1980s Canada, minus the real estate prices.
Obviously Toronto isn't built like Montreal or Stockholm, but I was surprised by the density being built along Sheppard Avenue East all the way into Scarborough.
And then I explored the ugly new subdivisions going up in Stouffville; contrary to a coworker who said it's a sleepy old stock town, I found the shops packed with South Asians, Chinese and Caribbean Canadians, all run by low wage TFW. Many ugly high rise condo buildings under construction, really ugly new townhouses and SFH.
I've been watching this weird Dutch-Canadian family's YouTube channel, a typical rich farmer type from Ontario who's moved to Russia, which actually looks more appealing than much of Canada:
https://youtube.com/@countrysideacre...eztuEQISPAb4-B
Warning: like many Dutch Reformed/Mennonites, he's extremely intolerant of LGBTQ and essentially English Canadian secular society, but I suspect he's attracted to cheap land and especially $ in Russia.
I certainly knew of people like him and his family, being exposed to Conservative Christians growing up in 1980s Midwestern Ontario.