Yes, but I'd argue that SV income might look higher, but after you try living there you'd gladly go back to Canadian expenses if the compromise was that you also had to take your Canadian income once again. Also, income inequality in Canada isn't as bad as the US (yet...)
Is it just bay area zealots on both sides embracing the meme that "IT'S SO EXPENSIVE".
We get it. we know. We don't look at SF and go "oh wow, 10 k more a year" while paying 2000 a month more in rent. We look at it and go "oh wow, 110k more a year, even with the rents thats a lot of money".
Also, isn't the median household income higher in Canada than the US?
honestly, the thing that made me question was lumping Canada in with Mexico. Not shitting on Mexico, but the standard of living there is clearly lower.
I'm Canadian.
Our GDP/cap is usually lower.
I work in tech, my salary is less than 1/2 what it would be in the US (not just Silicon Valley).
Most goods are more expensive here.
We do have Universal Health care, and generally good schools and Unis, it's generally safer, cops are more low key etc. etc.
It's hard to compare societies, and I think the US could learn a lot from our system, but in most 'individual metrics' Canada is just poorer, economically. (Though I'd hate to be poor in the US.) There's just so, so much more economic activity and points of prosperity in the US sometimes I find it mind-boggling, again, it's a lot of Apples to Oranges admittedly.