San Diego has its prices propped up by this & the large amount of military forces stationed there (plus Qualcomm somewhat).
Vancouver seems to have quite a few branch offices from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft, plus homegrown companies like Telus and Absolute (maker of the LoJack and Computrace embedded malware on most laptops & desktops).
Our housing prices are propped up by money laundering. Our biggest industry is real estate itself.
Our tech scene doesn't even show up on radar while Toronto does. MS doesn't hire locals, mostly foreigners who can barely speak eglish. AMZ here is a sweatshop according to Glassdoor reviews. Apple and facebook is here but they dont advertise the location or hire locals.
Don't even get me started about Telus lol
When a Starbucks barista in Seattle makes more than a junior, intermediate software engineer, your city is fucked.
yay
We do have that elusive quantumn computing company, yet to deliver any GDP boosting product.
and thousands of me too startups with shit pay and long hours. this was actually a selling point by the BC government: "Our workers are cheapest in North America"
Telus, Robbers & Bhell can be pretty brutal from what I've heard, and the IISPs are pretty limited in what they can offer due to the CRTC's tariffs.
Seattle Barista Salary: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/seattle-barista-salary-SR...