haha those questions are funny! It does make sense though. If you look at a map Canada it looks pretty icy. The North West Territories are huge and we're connected to Alaska.... Odd that they thought all of Canada was wealthy but yea the reasoning would make sense. I definitely saw a lot of bugs and creepy spiders..but in those places I also saw a lot more ghekkos and they were larger in size as well. What area of Costa Rica did you live again?