Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles

Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by fwilliams on Monday August 11, 2014 @04:19AM (#8162426)

As someone who grew up in Montreal, and moved to Silicon Valley, one of the appeals of SV is the weather. Montreal winters are long, cold, and dark. These are not conditions everyone wants to live in. Additionally, the Office De La Langue Francaise will make the life of any English company a nightmare. To top it all off, taxes in Quebec are absurdly high (especially considering the quality of social services). So while Montreal is a great city, I think it would be a poor choice for a YC office.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by McDoku on Monday August 11, 2014 @09:54AM (#8163230)

Well, taxes for individuals with out a lawyer or a good accountant. I think there if you spent the time making a deal with Quebec they would accomodate.

Secondly, it is cheap to hire someone for translation and companies should launch with multiple languages. It just increase the global audience for the product. I am sure YC could develop the capacity to translate the product at little cost.

Peixe Urbano, Baidu ... etc clones eat up the market that VC backed startup could accomodate for.

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/02/21/against-copycat-debat...

Winter... well try the rain in BC for a winter. Again I have no issue, I am from the Peg (Winnipeg) where it was -58 last year. It is the same weather as NYC and close to Boston (MIT, Harvard)

I know there is alot of development capital floating around.

http://www.investquebec.com/quebec/en/financial-products/smb...

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by sospep on Saturday August 16, 2014 @01:39PM (#8186864)

> you keep going back to the rain in vancouver as being a negative.

Here is the total precipation over the last 3 months

Vancouver = 103.1 mm < Montreal = 366.4 mm

SRC = http://montreal.weatherstats.ca/charts/precipitation-3months... ( environment canada)

Next your going to try to convince us that poutine > sushi

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by McDoku on Monday August 18, 2014 @03:24PM (#8194126)

Dude, compare average rain fall. Pointing at an outlying time period is unsciency. Lets though in total sunshine ;-)

poutine > sushi ... well not in Vancouver. Poutine is rough out there, all megabites with sesame seed pizza. It is just going to be tougher to bootstrap start ups out there.

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