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The taxes don't bother me at all in Canada. Go anywhere else and chances are you're paying state & federal taxes on good and services too, AND chances are equally good that the people who live in those areas are bitching about it as well.
The cold doesn't bother me either. In fact I love the change in seasons we get here, I find it more interesting than just having one continuous season, or in some countries 2: hot and rainy. No thanks, I prefer a real spring, a real fall, and in order to have that you need a real winter in between. We get about 5 months of warm-to-hot weather here, that's just fine by me. No mosquitos in winter, huge plus right there.
One of the few things I've bitched over about Canada is the price of gas. We're one of the largest producerrs of oil in the world and are the largest seller of oil to the US, yet we pay MORE for gas than Americans do. Meanwhile other oil-producing nations like Venezuela seel gas to their citizens for dirt cheap. I'm not saying Canadians should be able to buy gas for 12 cents a litre, but surely we should be paying less or at the very least comparable to prices in the US.
People who live in border towns know what I'm talking about. I have relatives and friends in such towns who for decades have been driving across to the US to fill up with gas. Because it's always been cheaper. For many years there was the excuse that the USD is worth more but that's not been the case for a while now, the two have been nearly at par at times in recent years. Yet gas is still cheaper in the US.
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