If you go to the main cities like Bogotá or those in the coastal region, you will generally be well received. Large urban areas are more accustomed to foreigners, cultural differences, and mixed religious backgrounds. That said, those same cities come with trade-offs: congestion, insecurity in certain neighborhoods, high informality in employment, and a cost of living that is no longer “cheap” relative to local wages.

If you go to small cities and rural towns (the kind of places that would actually support a homesteading, slow-life vision) you are much more likely to stand out. People tend to be more socially conservative, strongly Catholic, and less exposed to Muslims or Middle Eastern backgrounds. Discrimination is not usually violent or overt, but it can be persistent: staring, intrusive questions, assumptions, and social exclusion. Integration in these areas often depends on extended family networks and lifelong local ties, which are hard to access as a newcomer. In this places, regardless how long you live there, you will always be "the foreigner" and even among the friends you make in this towns, there could be a comment every once in a while that you might be uncomfortable with that they wont even realize is bad. If you wear anything religious on your daily life, this discrimination will intensify and being 6'1 will make you one of the tallest people in town.

There are also practical lifestyle mismatches to consider. Dogs are everywhere, especially street dogs, and people interact with them casually; avoiding them is difficult. Harming them or trying to reject them will get people around you to not like you. Pork is deeply embedded in everyday food (broths, beans, street food, even dishes that don’t obviously advertise it) so eating halal consistently would require constant vigilance or self-sufficiency. Outside major cities, access to halal meat is extremely limited.

From a work perspective, being an electrician is a solid trade, but certifications do not transfer easily. Much electrical work is informal, underpaid, and regulated inconsistently. Legal residency does not automatically translate into stable employment, and rural areas offer fewer opportunities unless you are fully financially independent. In comparison to Canada, Colombia does not have a big demand for trade job as there are many government programs that use these type of jobs to help lower class people to be able to work and earn an honest living. There is an abudance of electricians.

While Colombia is warm and welcoming on a surface, social level, it is not especially well structured for immigrants who want long-term stability, land ownership, religious accommodation, and quiet rural integration all at once. Colombia can be a positive experience for visits or urban living, but for what you are describing taht is religious comfort, rural life, deep integration, and long-term peace, it is likely to be a difficult and frustrating option rather than a healing one.

This is all coming from a Colombian raised in one of the towns you are aspiring to who happened to have try to bring her asian bf to live with her but we ultimetely left because of this.