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Healthcare costs are lower and more predictable in Canada for employees and employers alike.

This is particularly important for a couple having kids. Also Canada guarantees a year of mandatory* family leave at partial salary split between both parents.

If you're gonna pay taxes, might as well pay them for good benefits.

edit: *clarification: it's mandatory to allow leave, not mandatory to take it. But most people take most of it.

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The parental benefit payout is capped at C$528/week before tax. That's nothing to sneeze at, but with housing expenses in Vancouver, it's similar to unpaid leave in Seattle.

My employer tops up the government benefit to 80% (I think) of salary, conditional on working here at least 2 years after returning.

And even without an employer top-up, the right to keep your job for a year is very valuable.

>Also Canada guarantees a year of mandatory family leave at partial salary split between both parents.

This isn't good for startups.

How is barely paying anything for healthcare not good?

Please explain to me why the ability to choose what parent gets to raise their child for the first year so the other can persue their executive (or whatever) career while the government pays for it is a "harm" to your business?

> Healthcare costs are lower and more predictable

This is good for startups.

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