The scale of the problem is dramatically different. In the US, like much of the world, there are the expensive areas and then the less expensive areas, and people migrate accordingly. Gentrification happens and people have to move further afield, etc. I see listings for extraordinary homes in various towns in the US for prices that are absolutely dreamy (not like ghettos, but nice little towns). In a remote world, the US has astonishingly attainable options throughout the union.
In Canada, far-flung garbage towns have million dollar bungalows and $3000 rents. There are no inexpensive options anywhere, no matter how far out you're willing to move just to have a place to live. The country literally has politicians telling people to loan a bedroom. Yet in the face of actually falling home building and recurring disasters, the governing party has doubled down on an immigration rate that exceeds every other developed country (and I'm not talking about per capita, I'm talking about in absolute numbers!). It's unbelievable.