Thanks for your thoughts but this isn't a helpful post. You're welcome to stay in Canada if you feel there are non monetary benefits you would prefer over a hig

Thanks for your thoughts but this isn't a helpful post. You're welcome to stay in Canada if you feel there are non monetary benefits you would prefer over a higher salary or more career growth. I think that paying 50% of household income to cover basic shelter is absolutely absurd and a bad deal. It's financially impossible to start a family in a major metro here, and I'm a higher income earner. IMO that negatively impacts my quality of life substantially. Beyond this, as much as Canada likes to bill it self as friendly and multicultural and paint the US as racist and mean, my personal experience has been quite different. Here I have witnessed the worst forms of racial nepotism I've ever seen. Entire teams of the same ethnicities all speaking the same language. I was hired into a team like this and was regularly excluded from lunches the team took to celebrate cultural holidays. Sorry, racism is racism.