Yeah, 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 Canadia

Yeah, 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.