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But add in the increased housing costs & commute time. I'm not sure if there are additional concerns about health insurance (though California has recently pass

But add in the increased housing costs & commute time. I'm not sure if there are additional concerns about health insurance (though California has recently passed single payer) I don't typically see $200k salaries but expect $130k to $160k is typical. With $110k in mind in Toronto a $2500/month net increase in rent immediately knocks off $30k. So we're looking at a salary difference between Toronto and SV of $10k (pre exchange, when compared against $150k). Now there is an exchange rate... so you might get back to a $30k increase in the USA ... but there are dozens of other factors too. If you have a Muslim sounding name or colour to your skin do you want to send your children to school there? There are factors which overrule the difference in salary.

dragonwriter 9y ago
> (though California has recently passed single payer) No, it hasn't. (One house of the legislature has sent a bill which aims to create a single payer system, but which is not complete or implementable to the other house, largely to avoid procedural rules that would have forces starting at square zero if it wasn't passed out of that house. If the other House does the hard work of actually amending that skeleton into an actual single-payer bill that it passes, it will still have to go back to the first house and be passed there again, and then be signed by the Governor, before California will have passed single-payer.)