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YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
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Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#542If you don't provide opportunity and a good civil environment to brilliant/enterprising people, they will find a way elsewhere. And once Vancouver or any other city starts working for them, Silicon Valley will lose its exclusivity. The thing to note here is that this response from YC is not a political one, but a response that came out of market demand; it is pretty significant if it works out.
How will Vancouver improve its weather? California has a powerful draw...
Winter is great when you prepare accordingly.
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#543If you don't provide opportunity and a good civil environment to brilliant/enterprising people, they will find a way elsewhere. And once Vancouver or any other city starts working for them, Silicon Valley will lose its exclusivity. The thing to note here is that this response from YC is not a political one, but a response that came out of market demand; it is pretty significant if it works out.
How will Vancouver improve its weather? California has a powerful draw...
A little bit of rain is a small price to pay for not having massive drought problems
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#544Earlier quoted context omitted.
> US citizens also contribute a higher percentage of their income to local communities than immigrants do I don't know, man. The state of California and the federal government take their rightful 38% share from my income. I'm not a citizen. My girlfriend also pays her rightful 38% share of income. She is a citizen. And my income is a bit higher so in absolute terms I contribute more as an immigrant than my girlfriend…
I didn't mean in taxes, I meant that immigrants often send money home or buy from their native country, for instance when on vacation etc.
I for one do not. And none of my immigrant friends do either.
There's two types of immigrants in that regard. One has family back home that they support by getting a better job abroad. They might be the majority, I don't know.
Then there's the young person who moved abroad right after college or studied abroad in the first place. They're looking for better opportunities for themselves. Many start families abroad and their children are citizens.
Many if not most immigrants are hybrids of above. One family member moves abroad with the goal of sending money back home to provide for their family. But the endgame is to eventually bring the rest of the family over once the first immigrant finishes bootstrapping their new life.
I would wager that most immigrants who do have family back home, would love nothing more than to bring the rest of the family over to their new country.
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
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The average price of a detached home in Metro Vancouver (includes suburbs of Vancouver) in February was $1.76 million. That's down from $1.82 million a year earlier. 99.7% of properties in the City of Vancouver proper are valued at more than $1 million. The average price for a detached home in the City of Vancouver in 2016 was $2.77 million. I've had some trouble finding closely comparable values but it seems like th…
Are you only counting detached homes? There are very few of those in Vancouver proper. If there are any, they are mansions. Do the same comparison with condos? And apartments?
This is false. There are lots of small, old crappy houses in Vancouver. It's just that they cost a ridiculously large amount of money.
Here's a pretty typical example: https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/17409318/55...
Before you ask, no that's not even in a really desirable part of Vancouver.
That will cost you another million. See this as an example: https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/17850427/31...
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
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It would be delicious and terrible irony if Vancouver took over the role of startup capital, since it is the only place with a more unaffordable housing market than the SF bay.
$600 CAD/month for a bedroom in a house that's close to frequent transit and in a low-crime area isn't hard to find if you don't have your heart set on living right in downtown Vancouver. I am not going to pay $2200/month to live in gangland-torn East Menlo Park.
If you're willing to convert a parking spot in an underground parking garage into a "bedroom", maybe you can swing that.
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What's your story? I'm curious
For example, for europeans in general it's quite difficult to get to the USA. Sure, you can try the H1B visa, but I must remark the TRY part, as even though the company might want to hire me, they have to fight the visa process as there is a limited number of visas per year... and it also takes a lot of time. And when you get there, you still are not considered a citizen. For decades.
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> He could not hire US citizens as workers because nobody that is born here wants to climb trees all day picking fruit for minimum wage. Then he may have to pay over minimum wage!
Then he would have to charge 10$/apple at the store, his follow-up point.
And, I'm not saying this is wrong, but it appears to me that most people living here have voted with their wallet.
If you compare food prices in nordic countries where labor is more fairly priced, you'll see how dramatically more expensive everything is.