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Re:US vs Canada for immigrants by hluska on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @09:10PM (#7426212)
I've lived in Saskatchewan, Canada for most of my life and some of my best friends moved here through the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program. Saskatchewan's economy is going crazy, so there are many jobs. Consequently, if you decide to move forward with moving to Canada, you may entertain the thought of moving here or to a similar province.

However, before you agree to move to any city, spend two weeks there in January. Depending on where you move, Canada can be hip and cosmopolitan, or culturally barren and frigid. Please choose cities very carefully!!

If I were in your shoes, I'd likely confine my search to cities like Vancouver, Victoria, and possibly Nanaimo. You might also like Toronto, or Montreal.

If you have any questions, or want any local knowledge, my email is on my profile. Good luck, my friend!

Re:US vs Canada for immigrants by kohanz on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @09:47PM (#7426354)
Saskatchewan may have a big jobs boom, but in my experience it's not in tech.

A couple of years ago, my now wife had graduated from school and because she is originally from Saskatoon, we decided to look there for jobs. I work in the tech sector as a somewhat specialized software engineer. There wasn't much in available my specialization, so I started applying to jobs for which I was, if anything, overqualified, if anything. While my typical interview to application ratio is quite high, I had no responses after about 20 applications in Saskatoon. We ended up in Vancouver, which I'm happy for, but not until after desperately trying to live in Saskatoon. Maybe my experience was an outlier, but it seemed like there were plenty of jobs if I was a mining or potash engineer, not so much for a software engineer.