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That's artful! Your salary request is very reasonable assuming you've got the kinds of skills Amazon wants. Which is obviously the case. But your housing param
by GCA10 7y ago
That's artful! Your salary request is very reasonable assuming you've got the kinds of skills Amazon wants. Which is obviously the case.
But your housing parameters will freak them out. I'm seeing that the average house within Toronto city limits goes for $1.39 million. Your mortgage-payment cap lets you borrow only $410,000 or so at current Canadian rates.
So they need to pay you a lot more to get you into the house you want. And at that stage, they turn pale and get off the phone.
- radicalbyte 7y agoYeah, that's about 2-2.5x what it costs here; the 2k a month is what you pay on a loan of 500k for 30 years repayment. I have absolutely 0 interest in moving, it's nice here: we have a proper Democracy (proportional representation), you can cycle everywhere and the culture is socially liberal* and understanding. * The Netherlands is very socially liberal, but I live in the Bible Belt where a large proportion are socially conservative. However people learn to accept each other's differences and the PR ensures that certain groups don't get a disproportionate voice. I actually like living here: Bible Belt means community and a similar decency standard whilst live-and-let-live means that our LGBT friends can actually live their lives in the open.