Yea this pains me greatly as someone who lives in BC. I work for a fully remote bay area company and I get paid less than someone who is a full job level below

Yea this pains me greatly as someone who lives in BC. I work for a fully remote bay area company and I get paid less than someone who is a full job level below me living in Kansas. I once worked it all out: if I was located in Seattle instead of BC I would be making over double for the exact same remote position I am in. Not only would I receive a 40% pay bump, but I would also not pay state income tax, and housing is cheaper in Washington than British Columbia. On top of that almost every single good/commodity is cheaper in the USA than in Canada. All in all I would guess my purchasing power working in BC is around 35% of what it would be if I worked in Washington. If I wasn’t happily married to someone who is very against living in the USA I probably would have jumped ship and moved to the USA like many of my Canadian peers. The TN visa is easy enough to get as a software engineer.