Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley

Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by a-priori on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:21PM (#16997951)

For another data point: I'm an Amazon SDE2 in Ottawa making CA$225k total compensation this year (about 2/3 of that is salary). That's very good pay locally. I'm not sure I can match that anywhere else in the city.

I might be able to get better in the States, even after cost-of-living increases, but what quality of life gain would there be? Would it be worthwhile to have to deal with all the crazy shit with the education and healthcare systems and the politics down there?

So I'm sticking here in Canada. I just don't see the point in moving south.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by toephu2 on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:34PM (#16998555)

"Would it be worthwhile to have to deal with all the crazy shit with the education and healthcare systems and the politics down there?"

I don't know, 325M other people seem to be living with it and are not leaving in droves.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by ttul on Saturday May 05, 2018 @11:58AM (#17002345)

Holy cow - $255K in _Ottawa_... that’s living the dream, man.

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