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OP is comparing Canada to other developed nations. Canada is pretty subpar compared to most places in EU or US on all fronts: weather, housing, quality of life, innovation and salaries.

We have people renting a single bed in the same room for 600$/mo in Toronto.

I suppose that however if you are an immigrant from a war torn country or a developing country, Canada would look like heaven.

>>swat53+(OP)
Weather: Canada's weather certainly isn't the best, but not really worse than other northern climate countries.

Housing: Large cities like Toronto and Vancouver are unaffordable, but so are other large cities like London, New York etc. Just like most other countries, if you want to pay less for housing, go to a smaller city

Quality of life: how are you measuring this? By most measures (life expectancy, crime etc) Canada is well ahead of the US.

Innovation and salaries: Innovation is a bit hard to define, but salaries are definitely lower than the US. But here the US is also an outlier (at least for high earners) compared to most other countries. Tech salaries in Canada for example aren't lower than most European countries.