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Re:Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is h... by chrisseaton on Sunday February 09, 2020 @03:26AM (#22281032)
That’s just less than astronomically expensive not cheap. If they were after cheap they’d go to Berlin or London - that’s cheaper than Canadian cities for cost of labour.
Re:Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is h... by jessriedel on Sunday February 09, 2020 @09:53AM (#22282383)
Each company faces different constraints, and in particular there can be downsides going to Europe that don't exist for Canada, e.g., language, timezone, regulations, travel costs, culture.) A sandwich in Ohio is reasonably called "cheap" when I've been living in NYC, and I don't feel the need to say "but it would be really cheap in rural India".