Canada - re house pests.
After living in California, I can appreciate a lack of the following pests in the Canadian home:
Very Rare/ do not cause problems:
1) Termites (and there is so much wood construction here, outside and in)
2) Ants (We have ants, but they typically stay outside, not like those sugar ants... I did have carpenter ants, Once for a total of 6 weeks, and after treatment they were gone for good)
3) Roaches (only if imported from your vacation! I had never seen a roach until I moved to California at 30+ years old)
4) Bed Bugs (starting to arrive now, but still rare enough).
5) Very large (10" plus) centipedes running across your floor.
6) Scorpions (Thank you Arizona)
Problematic:
Silverfish (in older rentals)
Spiders (lower /dark spaces in homes on the coast, prolific, non-biting)
Wasps -- will build nest in cracks, under decks and high places, but very few ground nesting wasps here.
Typical concerns are rodents / mammals
Rats (west coast), mice (fall season), raccoons (west coast), bears (near forest), squirrels, etc making a mess / nest or digging up your garden. Pigeons that nest on your balcony / roof.
Neighborhood cats that uses our yard and garage for a litterbox. :-<
All told, pretty nice, and rare to call the exterminator for indoor insects.
Flying mosquitoes / flies, and outdoor biting things. Yes, yes., yes.