I moved to the middle of Canada, where the affordable healthcare is great, but the closest city is 2 hours away and I can't find anything cheap on Amazon

Courtesy of Leslie Redmond.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Leslie Redmond, 37, about her experience moving from Alaska to Winnipeg, a city of around 750,000 residents in the center of Canada. She is an assistant professor of food and human nutritional sciences in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the University of Manitoba. The conversation was edited for length and clarity.