Your point that Canadians are concentrated into big cities is true. But on the other hand, there are hundreds (thousands? millions?) of small towns all over the place in Canada, and all of the ones I've seen are clean, neat, nice, safe, and shockingly (to me) well-served by infrastructure. (not to say it's perfect; we've all heard of indigenous towns without water).

Just take broadband / wireless connectivity.

Outside of London / S.E. England, the rest of the country has shoddier coverage than places like Thailand! Twitch streamers who have tried to livestream their exploits outside of London were met with spotty coverage at best. You can go watch the VODs yourself. Its unbearably bad even with the aid of cellular-bonding equipment ( multi-SIM multi-data plan fused to provide better signal ).

Whereas in similarly sized places like South Korea the same live-streamers have been able to stream the length and breadth of the country with a single SIM data plan, right from their phones without so much as a bitrate drop-off!

Large swathes of U.K. are still serviced by those one-lane-each-way thoroughfares you saw over a 50 years ago in films such as Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange.

My personal gripe - air conditioning is nearly non-existent outside of big box commercial establishments & good non-bed & breakfast hotel chains. ( This is the case across much of Europe - scores of people died in a heat wave in France not so long ago )

[1] The size of South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while the size of the United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, making the United Kingdom 144% larger than South Korea. The population of South Korea is approximately 51.8 million people, while the population of the United Kingdom is approximately 67.8 million people.