Canadian here who lived in the US for a few years. One thing I discovered while living stateside is that there are a lot of features in the big tech companies s

Canadian here who lived in the US for a few years. One thing I discovered while living stateside is that there are a lot of features in the big tech companies services which only exist for American users. When I put a US SIM card into my google pixel and got a US number, a bunch of stuff I had never seen before started appearing. Similarly the number of products available to me on Amazon grew by what felt like at least an order of magnitude, and I could have nearly all of them on my doorstep in days, sometimes on the same day I ordered them. And that was in a small city in a flyover state. Agreed, the ubiquity of this stuff is hard to understand from the outside but for me it was extremely clear from within.