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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

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Post by pcthrowaway »

nickzarzycki wrote: post #492
neptunespear wrote: post #358

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$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.

"$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." (Has not looked for an apartment in Vancouver in the last 10 years)

600 a month for a bedroom is definitely doable... I found two steal in the commercial drive area with the catch of having a roommate who filled up the living room with bike parts.

You're right that it's not easy to come by though, and if you want to live within a 30 minute transit commute of downtown and have a single bedroom, it's unlikely you'll find anything for less than $750 that's not an SRO

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Post by elliotec »

justin66 wrote: post #651
jessewmc wrote: post #612

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The temperatures are very moderate in the winter, but the rain is bad. It can, and does, rain for multiple consecutive weeks in the winter. The lack of sun is even worse. It can have a very real effect on mood if you're from somewhere that gets more reasonable amounts of sunlight, which is pretty much anywhere else in Canada. I lived there for four years and I had a very tough time with the lack of sun. It can be ver…

Well, the relevant comparison is to the San Francisco Bay Area...

It's way way worse than the Bay Area. Have you been to Seattle? It's like that.

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Post by chongli »

potatolicious wrote: post #631
chongli wrote: post #438

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Tons to do in Toronto though and it's just a stone's throw away!

Agree that Toronto is lovely, but 113km is a curious definition for "stone's throw"... Especially given the 401's proclivity for stop-and-go traffic...

You can often make the trip in under an hour. Similar to the trip from Berkeley to SF!

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Post by branchless »

ilugaslifg wrote: post #84
Kluny wrote: post #36

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If you're complaining about the price of Vancouver real estate, it hardly makes sense in this context where San Francisco is the alternative.

But a senior engineer in Vancouver makes less than a coffee-fetching intern in SF.

They are both disgusting.

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Post by pcthrowaway »

refurb wrote: post #493
Kluny wrote: post #471

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I was being facetious, and yes, we do absolutely have racists, and yes, most of the people in our prisons are not white (they're First Nations, in our case). Even so, we don't quite have the same legal system that seems to systematically lock up non-white people in bulk. A lower percentage of our population is in jail, they stay in for less time, and we have less violent crime overall. If you aren't white, I feel con…

You mean the same Canada whose police would pick up drunk First Nations men, drive them out of town and let them freeze to death?[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths

I'm sure Canada has had several such incidents (some that happened more recently than 17 years ago), but I'd wager that you're still safer here from the police (across the board, but especially for minorities), than you are in the U.S.

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Post by sedachv »

Tiktaalik wrote: post #539
Kluny wrote: post #532

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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?

No you are very incorrect. 81% of the land area of the City of Vancouver is zoned for detached homes and most of these are simple, cheap post war houses or cheap 60s era "Vancouver Specials."

The houses in Vancouver are so crappy someone even made a joke quiz about it, in 2010, when the prices were a lot lower: http://www.crackshackormansion.com/

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Post by 27hours »

I'm new to the site. Seems you are controlling things around here (moderator to say). Why are my comments only visible when I'm logged in? as soon as I logout and look at the comments on this article as unregistered user, I do not see any of my comments. That gives false sense that everyone is looking at my comments but in reality they are being hidden. That makes me think other users even when they are logged in the website will not see my comments because they are censored Probably as comments are not in line with rhetoric of those in charge of this site, maybe? Is it a way to censor what YC does not agree with? I never knew this existed.

Please explain if otherwise.

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Post by DannyBee »

robotresearcher wrote: post #654
c141charlie wrote: post #619

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Vancouver's climate/geography is a feature, not a bug. Mountain biking, climbing, and skiing in Vancouver is amazing. And you don't have to drive two or three hours to get there. It's literally right outside your front door. This will be a draw for outdoorsy types.

Also world-class scuba diving. Dry suit required, but lots of wildlife. Easy stuff and technical stuff available. Climb, ski, bike, dive, kayak, hike. Top vacation destination activities available every weekend.

Dry suit is pretty much required in Monterey in the bay area anyway, unless you are nutso and enjoy being really cold.

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Post by bobosha »

crikli wrote: post #308
komali2 wrote: post #253

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As a Texan it boggled my mind to hear people complain about immigration. Walk into UT, A&M, UH engineering departments, half the students are Chinese or Russian or Indian. In the grad programs it's even more. That means their best talent is here , paying US taxes, contributing to US companies, making the US more powerful, all the while contributing almost nothing to their home countries. How is that a bad thing! I do…

The move from calling illegal aliens to illegal immigrants (or undocumented workers, or whatever) creates so much confusion. I don't know a single person, and I know a good number of Trump voters, who is opposed to legal immigration. What many people, myself included, are opposed to is the illegal part. Yet I consistently see this stance twisted to mean opposition to all immigration. This conflation is patently ridic…

You might want to rethink that assumption, what about Trump & co.'s stance on h1b visas? Which are probably the only legal channel for skilled immigrants

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Post by heartbreak »

jessewmc wrote: post #612
mck- wrote: post #576

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Weather here is amazing! Vancouver has such a bad rep when it comes to rain, but honestly it's not that bad. Here's what it's really like: Between May and October, basically half of the year, you'll have very comfortable T-shirt weather, and blue skies I'd say 70% of the time! Between December and March it's gloomy, but you'll have awesome snow in the mountains, just 30 min from downtown :) from our office we can see…

The temperatures are very moderate in the winter, but the rain is bad. It can, and does, rain for multiple consecutive weeks in the winter. The lack of sun is even worse. It can have a very real effect on mood if you're from somewhere that gets more reasonable amounts of sunlight, which is pretty much anywhere else in Canada. I lived there for four years and I had a very tough time with the lack of sun. It can be ver…

Some people enjoy rainy weather.
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