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I'm a junior web developer with about 1 year experience writing React & ES6.

I started at $40000. After 1 year, I'm now at $53000.

I both live and work in Toronto.

Wow. When I started 20+ years ago in Toronto I made $30k. I can't believe that starting salaries are that low today. Within 3 years I was making > 50k but that's because I didn't know how to negotiate salaries. And a year later, I moved to Silicon Valley and my salary tripled (but my rent quintupled).

Starting salaries today at most silicon valley companies are ~100k or more.

Well the Toronto housing market is pretty bad... Too expensive for me right now. Currently living in a decent apartment though and it's not bad.

I'm sure the California market is worse though!

Rent is around twice as high, but your salary will also big twice bigger, or more. If all you care about is money, then California is a no brainer.

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