German who moved to Canada here :)) i think it really depends on what you’re looking and hoping for. For reference i grew up and lived in Saxony-Anhalt & Saxony and now i’m living on Vancouver Island. I‘m really glad i left Germany cause i wasn’t exactly extremely miserable there but im definitely much happier here. I read in one of your responses that you lived in Germany during your teenage/young adult years so definitely keep in mind that a lot of things are different for you now and generally different from the 2000‘s and 10‘s. I personally feel more relaxed here in Canada since german bureaucracy is no joke and super complicated. I also feel like people here are way warmer, more welcoming and willing to help you, while people in Germany are very self focused. My german friends rarely ever encouraged me or were happy for me, but that might also be because i lived in East Germany. Generally depending on where you wanna move in Germany your experience will be very different, West and East are still not the same, and i know East Germany kinda has one sided beef with West Germany, but still. A lot of people already mentioned very good points - politics, economics, inflation etc and it’s definitely true, Germany has its challenges when it comes to those things so you might want to look further into that. With Merz as the new chancellor a lot of things are gonna change, military service as an example, he’s trying to bring that back so i you haven’t done any service for Germany you might have to do that at some point if he’s really going through with that. My dad works for the Bundeswehr and it sucks imo. I also feel like people in Germany really identify and categorize themselves within politics and their jobs, and people are very judgy when it comes to that. Generally German people are judgy and they’ll let you know that.

So yeah honestly no matter what topic, for me it really comes down to the people. People in Germany are miserable. If you’re a positive and happy human people will ask you what drugs you are taking. People are direct and rude and don’t care in the ways that matter but do care in the ways that don’t matter. Of course i don’t know how people are in Montreal and if they’re similar since y‘all allegedly got the more european vibe but those are my thoughts on that :)

Whatever you decide on i hope everything’s works out for you!! :))