They didn't bother listing Vancouver because the salary here is so painfully low with entry level software engineering positions regularly listing $40,000 CAD /year or $30,000 USD /year, which is what a Starbucks barista in Seattle clears.
As your experience goes up, so should your salary right? Not in Vancouver. It's around a couple hundred dollars per month in after-tax pay bump provided you've slaved at a company for 5 years minimum.
Pretty fucking hard to build a competitive tech company in Vancouver, when people are unmotivated due to depressed wage, high cost of living with no upward mobility. Almost everybody I talk to, housing is a big issue. Everyone is working, commuting on congested public transit, house poor but the image of living in Monaco, coupled with good ol' Canadian Ohwellism, people really don't give a shit about career mobility as long as they have a regular job that will let them sustain a roof over their heads.
There is a large brain drain happening here, in 15 years, this city is going to be a very different place. I don't know what the impact of losing long time middle class residents who comprise of the economy.
You will be poor but working in Vancouver, and that alone serves as a novelty for newcomers. There's really nothing special in Vancouver, to justify a 100%~300% pay cut (factoring in exchange rate and low Vancouver salary).
Vancouver might be multicultural but it's also a ethnically silo'd and very tough to meet people in general as they are very cliquey and stick with their own skin color.
Lot of broken dreams and disappointed Canadians/Americans from other provinces/states who tell me these things, which is why I'm writing this long comment to warn those who have a romantic attachment to Vancouver.
Fuck Vancouver.
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