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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo... by SEJeff on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:49PM (#36511648)
Hollywood has been spending literally over a billion USD equiv a year in "Hollywood North" aka Canada since around 2006. It creates thousands of local jobs and has a lot of follow on effects.

This was more or less the culmination of super-NIMBY California folks making an entire industry pick up and move due to hostilities.

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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo... by version_five on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:59PM (#36511772)
So, is it a net benefit or not?
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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo... by SEJeff on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:37PM (#36515675)
A large benefit for Canada, yes. It decimated the local industry in or around Los Angeles when I lived there. I was a software engineer and didn’t much care but had several friends who were affected.
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