It doesn't. And the average joe isn't going to move either. However, the Waterloo software engineering graduate who's making 150k+RSU+bonus is probably nailing

It doesn't. And the average joe isn't going to move either. However, the Waterloo software engineering graduate who's making 150k+RSU+bonus is probably nailing a Principal engineer position at a famous american tech company in SF/SV/NYC/Boston and is absolutely going to nail big bucks. Thats some superstar material right there. The only places I've seen that approached those numbers in Canada were Canadian offices of Wall street banks. And having worked for those companies in the past, superstar engineers at Morgan/Goldman in NYC made me look poor. And i'm far from poor.