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- B.C.'s tech industry has many exploitative employers - B.C.'s tech market is underpayed, below national average. - B.C.'s living cost on average excee
by notastartup 12y ago
- B.C.'s tech industry has many exploitative employers
- B.C.'s tech market is underpayed, below national average.
- B.C.'s living cost on average exceeds the average salary.
- B.C.'s high real estate cost results in many house poor population.
- B.C.'s political party places far more labor rights on nurses and people cutting down trees.
- B.C. has a problem of bleeding talent to other provinces because of above reasons.
Source: I live here.
- conover 12y agoPartially agreed. I found Vancouver very lovely (Stanley Park is quite nice) yet very expensive (cost of living) and relatively low paying. I would need a company there to "sponsor" my visa (as an American) but I don't want to take an massive pay cut.
- potatolicious 12y agoYeah, I was raised in Vancouver and like the lifestyle enough, but moving back is a complete non-starter. Vancouver's tech salaries are lower than other Canadian metro areas, which are themselves far lower than US salaries. I'm literally making 3x more here in NYC than a similar position in Vancouver. And housing prices (purchase, not rent) are scarily not that much lower than Manhattan. The general small size of the tech industry also means that if you don't like this underpaid arrangement you're not exactly a very abundant job market. Vancouver is a huge employer's market, which works out great for founders, but not great for employees. Vancouver is a lovely city - I have a lot of sentimental attachments to it - but the economics of it for employees is nonsense.