Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
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Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
#2I wonder how this might affect startups in Canada? Will it be easier to hire American programmers? Will more investors come up north?
Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
#3People are not going to move. After every single election in France people say they will move to the US, or to germany, or to... I've never seen anyone moved anywhere.
ps: parts of my family moved out of Hong Kong when it became Chinese again. But that was quite a different situation.
Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
#4I wonder how this might affect startups in Canada? Will it be easier to hire American programmers? Will more investors come up north?
Software professionals might get to Canada, see the smaller paycheck and run back home!
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#5Canada seems appealing to Americans until you realize you could be earning more in the U.S. while spending less on a bunch of other things.
Don't get me wrong, I love living in Canada and I mostly don't miss living in Bay Area, but most of my friends lament the fact that their salary and career opportunities are a joke compared to what they could have in the U.S. (even adjusting for cost of living).
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#6People are not going to move. After every single election in France people say they will move to the US, or to germany, or to... I've never seen anyone moved anywhere. ps: parts of my family moved out of Hong Kong when it became Chinese again. But that was quite a different situation.
That's kind of funny. French people is the single biggest source of expats (if we ignore domestic helpers) in Hong Kong. Seems to be very common for French people to emigrate.
Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
#7People are not going to move. After every single election in France people say they will move to the US, or to germany, or to... I've never seen anyone moved anywhere. ps: parts of my family moved out of Hong Kong when it became Chinese again. But that was quite a different situation.
I think that's incredibly naive. For one thing, moving from France to Germany is a huge cultural and linguistic leap. Moving from the US to Canada is really not.
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#8People are not going to move. After every single election in France people say they will move to the US, or to germany, or to... I've never seen anyone moved anywhere. ps: parts of my family moved out of Hong Kong when it became Chinese again. But that was quite a different situation.
A friend of mine moved from California to Madrid last month.
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#9Corp tax in Ontario is 15% and free health care. Dev pay also comparable.
Come over :)
Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
#10I wonder how this might affect startups in Canada? Will it be easier to hire American programmers? Will more investors come up north?
As it stands now, I doubt that many American programmers would be willing to take the pay cut they'd have to accept if they came to work here.
I like it here, and I'm happy with what I make, but when you factor in the exchange rate, a typical US developer would take a huge salary haircut working here; probably 40-50%.