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

Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by acchow on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:26PM (#16999998)

Agree completely. Born and raised in Toronto. Canadians are nice and the diversity is great. But San Francisco was a breath of fresh air I didn't even know I needed until I came here. Toronto feels so rigid in comparison. I don't want to ever leave California.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by ironjunkie on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:07AM (#17001135)

stay there for long enough and you will start to see the cons also.

There is a lot of pros for moving fast and getting things done, jobwise. Weather also is amazing.

Now for personal life, the older you become, the more I realize that this place (the bay area) is really not the best quality of life you can get. People all think the same way, diversity is only visual, and there is not that much diversity of thought. Everything gravitates around work and tech. People are happy to work a crazy amount of hours and feel cool for doing so.

I loved it for a couple years then started to become bored.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by acchow on Saturday May 05, 2018 @08:19PM (#17004619)

I'm not really in the tech bubble tho. I work in tech but it's just a job. Most of my friends are not in tech and most of them have never met anyone else working in tech other than myself.

The tech industry only makes up a small percentage of the bay area population.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by selimthegrim on Sunday May 06, 2018 @05:26PM (#17008654)

Is "Toronto the Good" still thrown about much?

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