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As a Canadian coder who lived in Toronto for 20 years, I recommend Germany hands down. I love my country, but high taxes, housing bubble, stagnant salaries, ho
by rapind 7y ago
As a Canadian coder who lived in Toronto for 20 years, I recommend Germany hands down.
I love my country, but high taxes, housing bubble, stagnant salaries, horrible choices when it comes to political candidates...
I will say the healthcare is great, and the people are generally awesome (to a lesser degree in Toronto though).
- omouse 7y ago>high taxes, housing bubble, stagnant salaries Salary ranges are still the same since a decade ago even though cost of living has gone up. My first job as a full-time dev was $65k rent was $1500 or thereabouts, I'm sure there are first-time devs making $65k now. Even though rent is now $2000 at least for the same place I was living at. After tax income is $49,190 (https://simpletax.ca/calculator https://simpletax.ca/calculator) and rent went from $18,000 to $24,000. As a percentage of after-tax income that's going from 36.6% to 48.8%. The rent would have made me poorer if I hadn't changed jobs!
- h4waii 7y agoSounds like you love your country, but not the City. Lots of places in Canada other than Toronto, LOTS, that aren't impacted by the mentions you mention.
- rapind 7y agoHousing bubble is everywhere as are stagnant wages. Household debt in Canada is at a historic high. https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/households-debt-to-gdp https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/households-debt-to-gdp