As someone that lives in downtown Vancouver and was a regular Nordstrom shopper we have a very different view of Canadians. I think the real issue if the proliferation of high end brand specific stores, why buy buy a LV purse from Nordstrom when there is an LV store next door. The designer brands are just figuring out distribution themselves.
The luxury market is huge in major Canadian cities.
Recently did the exact same thing and came to the exact same conclusion, even if code server worked well enough the lost screen realestate pissed me off so much I don't think I could have lived with it.
I have a Ipad with Magic keyboard that I tried to make work for just keeping up on work while I travelled not even as a primary dev machine and without background tasks it was just not possible.
Ended up giving it to my wife and getting a surface go 2 m3, its lighter smaller and 1000% more capable, couldn't be happier.
For those that don't know you can get a free account up to 20gb using referrals (check out ebay), 20gb is more than enough for me to sync my core work between my three main machines.
Also what to m and d do?