The one thing contra: 🇨🇦🇺🇸 are built to require cars; 15m drive either way and 2h shopping trip for two weeks of groceries priced for stockholder value. 🇪🇺 Is usually a 5 min walk and 5€ whole chicken, 0,6€ veg.
To a degree I'd never have believed, it changes the mental/physical effort to make dinner.