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There's hardly anything in Victoria. It's a Government and Retirement town.

Edit: apparently my perspective is dated; see the replies.

No so. Victoria has a thriving software community.

Tech is the city's biggest industry.

https://www.victoriachamber.ca/about-victoria.html

Was just reading this; sounds like tech started becoming a growth industry recently. Neat!

https://www.vicnews.com/business/booming-tech-sector-in-grea...

There's a significant amount of startups / medium companies / consultancies but no "heavy hitter" offices like FAMGA, which is probably a driver behind the state of salaries. There is some Amazon presence through an acquisition they made on ABE books. Though there's also lots of remote workers here too for big companies like Github / etc.

Workday. Unless they moved out of Victoria cause it's hard to recruit.