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YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by tormeh »

jacquesm wrote: post #205
Mythanar wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dublin? Sure. Amsterdam - if you believe you can grow decent startup scene in location with 52% income taxes and 1.2% wealth tax and 21% VAT, I have a bridge to sell you. Silicon Valley happened before the tax madness, and there is now net wealth outflow to lower-tax locations.

52% income tax is only on income > 67K euros, below that it is tiered with the next level down being 40%. The wealth tax is subject to an exemption of the first 25K. Also important: there is no capital gains tax and healthcare costs are ~100 euros / month no matter what you earn.

No capital gains tax? Wow. So rich people in The Netherlands pay no taxes? Or is there a wealth tax?

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Post by astrodust »

dragonwriter wrote: post #480
mehaveaccount wrote: post #214

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Calexit would allow California to bring in anyone they want though, and SF wouldn't have to worry about the US immigration policy screwing up it's tech scene. I'm looking forward to the Calexit proposition vote.

> Calexit would allow California to bring in anyone they want though In the same way that secession allowed the Confederacy to do that. The US has no equivalent of the EU's Article 50, and until it does, "Calexit" means a war that California is in no position to win.

It might not mean war if the country itself has given up on sticking it out. Maybe it'll be an ugly divorce instead.

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Post by hackuser »

acchow wrote: post #537
curiousfiddler wrote: post #448

If 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...

Lots of business is done in places where weather not up to Bay Area standards, such as New York, London, Tokyo, Beijing, etc.

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Post by martin1975 »

acchow wrote: post #537
curiousfiddler wrote: post #448

If 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...

Winters are mild in Vancouver. What kills anyone who wasn't born there is the nearly yearlong overcast gloom... Sunshine is a necessary ingredient to feeling good. Coffee is just a temp fix.

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Post by dgudkov »

Tiktaalik wrote: post #505
mediocrejoker wrote: post #451

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Vancouver's prices are high but they are not SF-high. If you mean housing cost relative to salary, however, that's perhaps a different story.

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…

Quick fact check returned this: "In all, 745 detached homes sold in Metro Vancouver last month, a massive 58.1 per cent drop from February 2016. The benchmark price for detached homes was $1,474,200, unchanged from the previous month but down 6.5 per cent from the past six months."[1]. Also [2].

And that's CAD, not USD. In USD it's $1,092,000. Still very expensive but not $1.76mln.

[1] http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2017/03/metro-vancouver-home-li... [2] http://www.vancourier.com/news/sales-average-detached-home-p...

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Post by mikeash »

jpttsn wrote: post #535
mikeash wrote: post #208

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Trump spent his campaign talking about banning Muslims. Rudy Giuliani is on record saying that the original order happened because Trump asked him to implement the "Muslim ban" legally. Personally, I'm willing to believe the people involved when they state their goals and motivations, and I don't think that quoting administration insiders is reasonably described as "inflammatory." Describing them as "insane" I'll gra…

Curious: Do you think Hillary Clinton is still at risk of being jailed? I mean, do you generally believe campaign promises, or do you selectively believe them?

Are we just pretending that Rudy Giuliani didn't outright say this was what it was?

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acchow wrote: post #537
curiousfiddler wrote: post #448

If 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...

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Post by martin1975 »

hackuser wrote: post #553
acchow wrote: post #537

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How will Vancouver improve its weather? California has a powerful draw...

Lots of business is done in places where weather not up to Bay Area standards, such as New York, London, Tokyo, Beijing, etc.

All of these have more sunny days than Vancouver. :)

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Post by fdsfsafasfdas »

hackuser wrote: post #553
acchow wrote: post #537

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How will Vancouver improve its weather? California has a powerful draw...

Lots of business is done in places where weather not up to Bay Area standards, such as New York, London, Tokyo, Beijing, etc.

I assumed they were referring to the part of the state with decent weather, not the bay area.

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Post by pedalpete »

drewrv wrote: post #291
ddebernardy wrote: post #118

In light of recent events [0], there's a non-zero chance that some founders out there would rather avoid going to the US at all - if only to protest with their wallet. It might be more sensible to open a second incubator in the EU. Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, Barcelona, there are plenty of options. (London is a good choice on paper too but pray tell what'll happen after Brexit.) [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/new…

Vancouver seems like the most sensible place for a satellite office, due to proximity to San Francisco.

Also proximity to Asia and Europe flying over the top of the world makes Europe surprisingly close.
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