The healthcare system is already broke here, there’s nothing left to break.
I'm not so sure of that.I get to Montreal on a semi regular basis and the drive west from the "Eastern Townships" toward the city is quite nice and the parts of the city I've visited also seem nice.
Also I driven from Winnipeg toward Michigan and thought that was pretty good too.
Add to that the time I got lost in suburban Toronto (don't ask me exactly where,I was *really* lost) and found the neighborhoods I was in to be quite nice (very much "upper middle class" by US standards) and I'd say that yours might be an unfairly pessimistic analysis.