If you didn't live in the US, then you'd be living in another country. Like most of the locals, you'd probably adjust to getting many services the way they are provided locally. In time, you may even come to find some of the things you take for granted about the US now to be just weird. This is not to disparage the US, but to offer perspective.
"the worst thing about living overseas is that its full of foreigners"
Which is wonderful if you define your quality of life by how often you can get things delivered to your house and how much heavily-funded Hollywood-produced video you can watch.
In much of the rest of the world, we do things outside our houses - I'm not sure if Canada is like the US for cities, but I can personally be in my city centre in 20 minutes by bus, and hang out with friends or see a film with my unlimited cinema card or check out the new cafes or find a new tasty Belgian beer. I can get my bicycle out and cycle with the cycling club - or run around one of the parks.
These things matter much more to my quality of life than what I can access instantly at home - I don't like being at home very much long-term.
Ironic, since we're talking about how you can't visit this article from the UK, and for reasons that have nothing to do with US licensing. Of course, I've had the same happen to me with UK-exclusive, unlicensed content, so.... Works both ways. Ultimately even though the US catalog of Netflix is huge, it's overshadowed by the global catalog's selection in aggregate...
For others' info: the above link points to a UK accessible version of this article.
If you don't have a VPN, you can view it with Tor Browser (so long as you don't get assigned a Tor exit node in the UK).
Come to think of it, it may be in the BBC's Charter that their content be free from commercials (to license payers). If so, they are contractually bound to hide the commercials or, keeping it simple, just not provide content with commercials to license-payers.
Of course, most of the BBC's internet accessible content has always been geo-restricted in the opposite direction. So they have form there.
Here we see something a bit different - the article is blocked to people in the UK.
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> We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com.