The demand in Montreal is... different. I'm in tech in Canada and I consider it from time to time -- Montreal, I mean -- and it's often a no-go. My wife is Fr

The demand in Montreal is... different. I'm in tech in Canada and I consider it from time to time -- Montreal, I mean -- and it's often a no-go. My wife is French-Canadian, ethnically speaking, and kinda interested, and I'd like the city all of the times we've visited. Taxes are high in Canada but are the highest in the QC. By a lot. You get good stuff, like free or subsidized daycare, but you lose a lot of $$$ out of that paycheck. COL in Montreal is low, but it's a cold place. Like, why go to Canada when I could go to Austin or the NC Research Triangle? Low COL means lower salaries. "Easier to be a human but harder to be a consumer" is what I've heard about COL and taxes in QC. The CAD is weaker than the USD by around 20-30%, which makes it less cool for US-based devs. You can work around that by upping that CAD number, but remember the taxes are much higher and you'll be paying comparatively more, %-wise, at 210k CAD than you would at 150k USD. Most jobs expect some degree of French, ranging from "learning but can get by" to "full-fluency in English and French". The city as a whole is kind of like that. So yeah, of course there are jobs. They pay mediocre rates, need a second language, and mean you'll get taxed a lot. And if you're not in Canada, moving north presents logistical issues on top of months of snow.