No offence, but if my province seceeded I'd prefer we go-it-alone. We'd let other places join us, probably, though
Just that some of the headlines of US feds are kind of disturbing, too big. That's the thing, we get a LOT of eastern culture broadcast, which is a lot like I guess your Boston culture is, and the rest is US culture, NY and LA. Some news from Spokane, but nothing significant. So cities are becoming, well, wuss-palaces.
Luckily, as far as I can decipher laws, the Province of Alberta is pretty cool with laws. They let municipalities make their own rules, so the big cities make more restrictive laws to suit their inhabitants, noise, traffic, all that. This way the urbanites can live in urbania, and the rest of us can dream of getting rich, and building a ranch somewhere with more freedom, where you can hang dice from your mirror, make noise after dark, and discharge firearms on your property.
In my province you really don't understand how big it is until you drive it. Last time we visited family further north we drove 6, 8, 10 hours, looked at the map, and this place is just over halfway to the way to the top of the map. Then took a double-take, and the map only showed the lower half of the province
If you want to get away from it ALL you sure can!
But I secretly love it when my Grandparents would complain about the traffic, and it was a truck passing by every half hour.
P.S.
You can't ranch too close to the city, even almost an hour's drive away my cousin says rich urbanites are buying ranches, and sub-dividing them, and a bunch of wusses come out and our-number the original inhabitants. Then they out-vote and pass unpopular laws on traffic and noise and even cattle smells. I guess you could try to fight them, some places are making rules on sub-dividing and stuff, but they are rich and crafty.
