Those are just the top two–there are many other reasons to move to Canada than just money.
Far harder to own a home in Toronto on a tech salary.
And if you get a tech job in SF, you’ve got great health insurance, so not a major obstacle.
Yup, as long as you have a job with medical coverage, you're OK. But God forbid you should lose your job and get sick, right? Because then you're screwed.
That someone might have been a Californian. To pick a recent example: https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Videos-show-fatal-shoot...
Hyperbole aside, you are more likely to die from firearms in California than Canada. Most of that, on both sides of the border, is suicide.
Contrary to popular Canadian fear mongering, the US is not a shooting free-for-all, as big as a problem gun violence might be. Of all the variables, getting shot is not something I consider about when deciding between the US and Canada.
At least we're not Kentucky.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fully-ar...
You mean, “the United States”, not Canada, right? The US pays more (not just per capita, but as a share of GDP, and thus would need higher taxes to pay for it) out of public funds for healthcare than Canada does. See, e.g., https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
The US, unlike Canada, also pays a bit more in private funds on healthcare than it does in private funds.
Detroit? Kansas City? Camden? Sure.
But cities like SF aren’t like those cities at all. Quick google shows 33 homocides in SF and 142 in Toronto. Based on population, that’s 33 per million for SF and 24 for Toronto.