New investor

Hello all,

I recently decided to get into bitcoin after all my friends started nagging at me and want to experiment on me first. I kinda understand how the process works but i have a few dumb questions

From what I read the steps in short are: Make an account in either binance or coinbase -> buy certain amount of BTC -> transfer it somehow to a hardware device for safety.

Im currently an international student in living in canada so are these 2 sites the best to get BTC? And is the hardware device really that important/ is there something similar to it i could use to secure my BTC online instead of a harddrive?

I was also thinking of letting my family in the middle east to open an account instead of me since ill get taxed 50% of my gains here but im not sure if thats stupid or not. My goal is just to save an amount of BTC for about 20+ years.

Also if anyone here is buying BTC from the middle east what site do u use?

Sorry if this is repetitive or anything just dont want have any regrets starting this out.