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

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Post by Pxtl »

dgudkov wrote: post #555
Tiktaalik wrote: post #505

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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…

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/20…

The housing price has deflated substantially in the past year because of a one-two-punch of a foreign buyer's tax and the Chinese government cracking down on rich Chinese people smuggling their money out of the country into foreign real-estate systems.

Vancouver's market had a reputation of being driven by Chinese cash... and whether that's true or not, perception is reality when it comes to markets.

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Post by walterkobayashi »

mck- wrote: post #576
acchow wrote: post #537

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

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…

that sounds alluring :)

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Post by Hydraulix989 »

psychometry wrote: post #397
degenerate wrote: post #286

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You might want to take a step outside the academic setting every once in a while. Chat with a cop, ambulance driver, or immigration officer from a sanctuary city if you really want to "get" it. It's the illegal immigrants that suck the system dry, not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.

Illegal immigrants are sucking the system dry Are you sure it's not the opiate-addled, unemployed, uneducated masses of white rural America?

As someone who grew up in a rural small town in the midwest before attending a top 15 university and starting a company in Silicon Valley, I really don't appreciate the perceived stereotype of my hometown.

BI just noted that the problem is a bit more widespread, it also affects the affluent "masses" in the Hamptons:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-hamptons-are-facing-an-op...

(Unfortunately, yours seems to be the prevailing attitude towards my "roots" here in northern California with its conflicting culture that purportedly prides itself on being free of stereotypes.)

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Post by pragone »

bermanoid wrote: post #587
pragone wrote: post #570

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Literally one of the things I hated the most when I visited California and all I hear about California is the weather (I should say, "San Francisco", not CA, since obviously CA is a pretty big state). I can't imagine what living somewhere that is the same every day.

If you grew up on the east coast, where you have about 1 week of pleasant weather in between hellish hotness in the summer and ball-shriveling cold in the winter, you'd appreciate SF's boringly middling weather. I do miss the snow, but that's what Tahoe is for.

I did grow up on the east coast, and have, so far, lived my whole life here.

I would never describe the summers as "hellish" nor the winters as "ball-shriveling". I thoroughly enjoy the tremendous variety through all the seasons. I would say there isn't "1 week of pleasant weather", but rather, a year of tremendously varying, enjoyable weather.

But, of course, that's sort of the point - to each their own.

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Post by pragone »

thearn4 wrote: post #584
pragone wrote: post #570

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Literally one of the things I hated the most when I visited California and all I hear about California is the weather (I should say, "San Francisco", not CA, since obviously CA is a pretty big state). I can't imagine what living somewhere that is the same every day.

I do feel like an outlier in that I really enjoy living in distinct seasons. It feel like it helps me mark the time internally, and reminds me that I'm a pretty small part of nature overall.

> It feel like it helps me mark the time internally, and reminds me that I'm a pretty small part of nature overall.

You know, I don't think I ever consciously had that thought, but since you mentioned it - I think I wholeheartedly agree with the statement.

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Post by empath75 »

komali2 wrote: post #531
err4nt wrote: post #455

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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.

It's only a problem if his competitors aren't.

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Post by caf »

kafkaesq wrote: post #469
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.

The thing to note here is that this response from YC is not a political one, Indeed. It wasn't formulated as political -- but the intrinsically the move does have significant political import (as a form of "voting with one's feet", as it were). Which has the potential to send signals that signs, slogans and marches (alone) cannot.

Voice versus Exit.

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Post by galdosdi »

pascalxus wrote: post #498
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.

But, this could also be quite positive for the bay area. By reducing the number of jobs, It might finally provide the housing relief the bay area so desperately needs.

If the bay area continues its absurd aversion to adding housing or transportation, some other cities are definitely going to eventually pick off all the jobs till the bay area looks like Detroit or 1970s New York. You can stay #1 just by already being #1, exploiting the chicken-and-egg problem, for a while, but not forever.

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Post by bingo_cannon »

xiaoma wrote: post #320
khuey wrote: post #297

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I agree that the most critical weakeness of Silicon Valley is real estate costs. I find it hard to imagine Beijing as a serious competitor though. If it were going to be anywhere in China I would expect it to be Shenzhen.

Shenzhen is a very different thing. It's important but not a challenger to SV. Huge startups come out of Beijing because it's the hub where the top students, founders, investors and regulators are. If you look at Fortune's list of unicorns, 3 of the top 10 are in Beijing. As they build, they're strengthening the founder/techie/investor ecosystem in the city even further. http://fortune.com/unicorns/

The list still has Theranos at # 14. Is it still relevant?

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Post by jlgosse »

jpollock wrote: post #433
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Having spent a few years in KW, I have a feeling it might be difficult to convince people to move there.

In the length of time I spend commuting to work in the morning, people in KW can drive to downtown Toronto to get some fun for the evening. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/University+of+Waterloo,+200+...

I wouldn't say 1h46m each way is something many people would want to do very often - why not just live in Toronto?
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