The issue is the wages, in Vancouver where a house is easily in the many millions companies seem to think it's fine and dandy to pay 80k a year in the high rang

The issue is the wages, in Vancouver where a house is easily in the many millions companies seem to think it's fine and dandy to pay 80k a year in the high range, ultra high range is 120k/y and get this - low level assembly and C programming generally pays less than ruby or js.