Toronto tech is growing but relying on outside talent

Re:Toronto tech is growing but relying on outside talent by crw5996 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:30AM (#20644918)

This is great to see. I visited Toronto for the first time last week and was amazed to see how much the city had to offer. It was so clean and the PATH pedestrian tunnels were the coolest thing I've ever seen.

I would have no qualms moving to Toronto from the United States to work if the right opportunity arose.

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Re:Toronto tech is growing but relying on outside talent by thecleaner on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:43AM (#20645023)

Even with the current compensation scene ? Software salaries seem to be really low everywhere except US. Even in other places its the american companies that pay well and the rest are bad.

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Re:Toronto tech is growing but relying on outside talent by crw5996 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:00PM (#20645708)

No. Personally, I would have a hard time turning down SF, Seattle, or NYC for Toronto; this is mostly because of salary.

I've never been to SF, but compared to the other two cities I named above, Toronto was much nicer imho. For a city of 2m+ people, it just felt incredibly clean and safe

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Re:Toronto tech is growing but relying on outside talent by ryry on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:53AM (#20645116)

Exactly. A ton of Toronto devs I know have left for the US. The base salaries are higher, and the exchange rate only adds more.

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Re:Toronto tech is growing but relying on outside talent by fuzz4lyfe on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:08AM (#20655049)

Salaries generally are lower compared to the US everywhere I've looked. Those labor protections and social safety net aren't free is my guess as to why.

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