Well, I believe that a unique person is someone who discovers that they're just about 99% the same as everyone else. Peace, health and fulfillment are baseline desires and insecurity doesn't allow for those things. You can change whatever you decide to change and get stuck in the mud or propelled into the bliss of utter independence and still end up miserable either way.
My "cultural foundation" says generally, you don't ask for help and when you fall down you get up again. It doesn't help. If you'd be safe and happier somewhere else and it's practical, go there. But since you're in Vancouver, stay there and make the best of it while staying true to yourself. Vancouver's an opportunity to live so unlock that part of you that knows how to ease into a new experience to see what it holds, and not what it lacks.
And keep updating your H&C with all of the new letters of support from people you meet who are delighted by your stubborn adherence to negative stereotypes.
The most efficient immigration systems are in countries that people don't wish to travel to, so Canada's system was born with a limp that will never be corrected.
