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> The 132,000 square foot state-of-the-art office That's it? This is a major HQ? A typical office is going to need at 150 to 200sqft per person total between desk areas, common areas (kitchen, hallway) and conference rooms. 132,000 sqft is a tight fit for 70 people. I guess they're expecting most employees to be mostly remote then. Edit: Yep, I'm off my an order of magnitude! Not deleting this for the sake of posteri…
> The 132,000 square foot state-of-the-art office That's it? This is a major HQ? A typical office is going to need at 150 to 200sqft per person total between desk areas, common areas (kitchen, hallway) and conference rooms. 132,000 sqft is a tight fit for 70 people. I guess they're expecting most employees to be mostly remote then. Edit: Yep, I'm off my an order of magnitude! Not deleting this for the sake of posteri…
So is there an actual picture of the building and workspaces? I was hoping to see what a modern office looks like according to Microsoft.
Are they going to pay enough for their developers to actually live near this Bay St office? Canadian developer salaries are abysmally low.
(Sorry, I don’t want to grumble.)
Expect a lot of Indian and Chinese developers to move here from the U.S. as the prospect of having any stability in the US basically disappears. We’ve had about 4 developers move to Canada already. I wouldn’t be surprised if retaining these developers is one of Microsoft’s intended goals of this “HQ”.
It's important to be careful about how much of your own propaganda you believe.
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The EU is not a single united market like the US is. Sure, you can bunch the countries together and get high GDP number but that's not an Apples to apples comparison with the US as every EU country has it's own completely different languages, economy, political and economic agenda, culture, market, legal and tax system, and local issues plus high levels off autonomy from the EU. The EU is not the United States of Eur…
> The EU is not a single united market like the US is The US is not a single united market. Each state has it's own economy, political and economic agenda, culture, market, legal and taxes, and local issues. > that's why there are no successful software giants that came out of Europe. this is just false. There are plenty of succesful european software giants , and there are numerous "unicorns" too; Spotify being the…
Therefore to end the argument here and save my sanity, I'll stop replying to you. Have a good day sir.
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The EU is not a single united market like the US is. Sure, you can bunch the countries together and get high GDP number but that's not an Apples to apples comparison with the US as every EU country has it's own completely different languages, economy, political and economic agenda, culture, market, legal and tax system, and local issues plus high levels off autonomy from the EU. The EU is not the United States of Eur…
> The EU is not a single united market like the US is. You made the comparison between US and EU, so it's in play. QED.
I hope we get more offices opening up in Vancouver soon as well. Toronto has more momentum as the tech centre but Vancouver has better weather and is a beautiful place to live.
How do homeless issues compare? I know when I was a kid there was a big problem in Vancouver, I imagine it’s only gotten worse.
My spouse is a case worker in the housing department of an Ontario municipality so I get all kinds of inside information on the subject.
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How do homeless issues compare? I know when I was a kid there was a big problem in Vancouver, I imagine it’s only gotten worse.
You don't find something like East Hastings in Toronto, but sheer numbers are comparable. Toronto just has a more even geographic distribution of people living rough. Toronto also pioneered mixed-income housing and recently tore down its 1960s-era "urban renewal" projects so it has a longer history of addressing homelessness, but it's still a major and mostly invisible problem (people living rough is generally not a…
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That may be relevant to the US government, but the investors that would invest in startups don't have access to that printer.
VC firms, investment banks, etc. are all suckling from the same FED teat, and all this cash trickles down into the US tech sector/start-up scene.
It has nothing to do with the federal reserve and everything to do with risk tolerence.