As mentioned already it's not. However, as a Canadian who now lives in the US, the difference in availability, especially in metro centers, is stunning. Junk f

As mentioned already it's not. However, as a Canadian who now lives in the US, the difference in availability, especially in metro centers, is stunning. Junk food is a fraction of the price, and it's everywhere. In my home town I used to make my own lunch and eating out was a luxury, because I felt it was too expensive. Here, as a software engineer I make roughly 3x my old salary for the same job (not representative, but it's my current situation either way), and junk food is 50% cheaper or more. I used to have to take a bus to go to an ice cream shop. Here they're at every street corner. There was only sit down restaurant everywhere I used to work aside the occasional McD and Tim Horton (I didn't work downtown). I work in an equivalent area now, and there's like 40 takeout restaurants within walking distance. And then you have Foodlers, Grubhub, etc, that are far, far more popular and "accepted". Those things exist up there, but not nearly as many people use them. So I got into bad habits. Only cooking a few times a week. Eating out is so cheap in proportion to my salary it's a no brainer compared to the time saving. That's until my health started to suffer, that is!