Interestingly, the cost savings was a small part of my decision. What really drove this decision for me was the abject idiocy of doing business in any jurisdiction where a governor or mayor could simply declare my business “non-essential” and tell me I had to close it down for an indefinite period of time. No ‘effing way was that ever going to happen.
BS Covid travel regulations imposed by Trudeaus cabal of socialist/marxists “controllers” kept me out of Alaska (and Alberta) for two years. So, I have REAL sympathy for what you are saying.
There’s probably hundreds of thousands of people like me. If so, imagine how much lost revenue that cost small businesses in Canada. Like me, they just stayed home and didn’t spend millions/billions in Canada during the scamdemic.