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I'm a developer in Seattle that moved here from Vancouver. While rent isn't much cheaper here, the cost of living is lower and my net income is 50% higher now
by Jagerbizzle 11y ago
I'm a developer in Seattle that moved here from Vancouver. While rent isn't much cheaper here, the cost of living is lower and my net income is 50% higher now than it was in Vancouver, not taking the exchange rate into account at all.
After 3 years here I've now purchased a townhouse in Cap Hill. I could have never afforded the house I just purchased in a comparable Vancouver neighborhood.
- neptunespear 11y agoI want to ask you, do you think that there are wider class divides in Seattle than in Vancouver? I hear all the time about BLM marches, May Day riots, anti-gentrification/anti-Amazon vandalism, no-whites-allowed yoga, SPD brutality, etc. in Seattle. Whereas in Vancouver, our local Occupy Vancouver movement dissipated quickly. Someone once told me that in Seattle (and SF), there are a lot of desperate people because class is divided in a way that I (as a Canadian) am not used to.