> especially since Canada has a lot more land than the US per capita. Unless you want to live off by yourself in the isolated tundra, the land anywhere close t

> especially since Canada has a lot more land than the US per capita. Unless you want to live off by yourself in the isolated tundra, the land anywhere close to civilization is highly sought after farmland. Farmland values is the even more interesting story in Canada, having increased at a rate eclipsing the growth in housing prices over the past 15 years or so. Cities have become so expensive largely because sprawling out into that farmland has become so much more expensive as compared to the historical norm.