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May be this is a dumb question, I will ask it anyway, Tijuana Mexico is about 500 miles from Bay Area, where as Vancouver Canada is 1000 miles. Que Canada?
by sremani 10y ago
May be this is a dumb question, I will ask it anyway, Tijuana Mexico is about 500 miles from Bay Area, where as Vancouver Canada is 1000 miles.
Que Canada?
- MBCook 10y agoMy obvious thought: YCombinator is in English (based on what I've seen, at least as their primary language) and Canada is an English speaking country.
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- MichaelGG 10y agoAlso a homicide rate of 2/100k vs 40 might be indicative of other problems one city may have that the other doesn't.
- zardo 10y agoWhat a great opportunity to make the world a better place.
- jey 10y agoHow would hosting it in Tijuana reduce their homicide rate?
- emiliobumachar 10y agoTrickle-down economics.
- emiliobumachar 10y agoAlso, role modeling.
- ttam 10y agoand cheaper than Vancouver and Mexico's a lot easier to go to than Canada (which now also has an ESTA like system) also I would guess that people in Tijuana are pretty good with their English
- arcticbull 10y agoI may vehemently disagree with the eTA program, but let's not overstate, it's $7CAD ($5.18USD) and lasts a decade.
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- sneak 10y agoEnglish, and Vancouver is a lot safer/cleaner than TJ.
- gaastonsr 10y agoAs a Mexican I agree. Tijuana is not particularly one of the star cities of Mexico.
- seizethecheese 10y agoI'm interested in visiting Mexico, a city not a beach. What would you recommend?
- gaastonsr 10y agoUnfortunately I haven't traveled Mexico much to recommend one from personal experience but my friends who have visited Guadalajara and Guanajuato have loved it.
- seizethecheese 10y agoThanks!
- minikites 10y agoMaybe YC going there could pump money into the area to improve it.
- randyfreed 10y agoSure, maybe YC could go to Mogadishu and pump some money in there to improve it.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 10y agoGoing to 'Diet USA' is likely more seamless and convenient. I lived in Canada for several years and I honestly think that's a good description for it, you cannot really tell whether you are in Michigan or Ontario if you don't look at the road signs.
- jcranmer 10y agoOr visit the museums, where all the exhibits have both French and English text. As an American who worked in Canada for a summer, I can honestly say that the two countries are so similar you're surprised by any minor differences that do come up.
- krisdol 10y agoHave you been in Quebec? Montreal is more like a central European city than anything in the US. I haven't been to Quebec City but I gather it's not much different. It's also starkly different if you look at share of wealth. Class divisions are smaller in Canada, noticeably so.
- maxerickson 10y agoOntarians say "Eh" unironically.
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoAs a Chicagoan, being in Toronto can be a little bizarre. After a while I forget I'm not at home. That said, Canada is fairly diverse. Montreal has no easy American city comparison.
- fatbird 10y agoI'm a Canadian who lived and worked in the US for six years, and my impression on returning home is that Canada is the country you'd get if you took the U.S. and removed the extremes of wealth and poverty.
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- ronilan 10y agoVancouver is one of those places where: The future is already (t)here – it's just not evenly distributed. -- William Gibson
- ChemicalWarfare 10y agoI'd guess the number of tech startup founders in Vancouver is higher than in Tijuana. Also, no need for bullet proof vests.
- homakov 10y agoOh boy, I really doubt anyone who stepped on TJ grounds wants to ever come back. Especially not YC people
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- drzaiusapelord 10y agoOther than the language barrier? I imagine its terrible crime problem is a mark against it as well. It had 100+ more murders than often-cited Chicago last year with 1/3rd the population of Chicago! Also at $15,000 GDP per capita, its not exactly a wealthy place. Vancouver chimes it at 3x that and had all of one murder last year.
- robotpony 10y agoVancouver had more like 12 murders last year (http://vancouver.ca/police/Planning/2016YED.pdf http://vancouver.ca/police/Planning/2016YED.pdf).
- alfredxing 10y agoAnother reason: despite being closer to the Bay Area, flights to/from Mexico from SFO are actually more expensive (by 100-200 dollars) than to/from Vancouver.
- chris11 10y agoCanada has some really great universities, so the talent pool might be higher quality there.
- EduardoBautista 10y agoHow are you comparing Tijuana to Vancouver? I have lived in Tijuana. It's one of the worst cities in Mexico. Guadalajara or Mexico City would make much more sense, but even they can't compare to Vancouver. I openly say that the bridge that connects the Tijuana airport directly to the United States is the best thing that ever happened to the city.
- sremani 10y agoI have never been to either of the cities, my question is a question of curiosity, that is why I qualified it with probably being a dumb question.
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- qntty 10y agoProbably IP law