I guess permanent residency is better than an H-1B, but Canadian salaries are pretty low, from what I hear. I figure most people in (e.g) India would keep trying for the US
US immigration literally runs lotteries for various streams including H1b. It doesn’t feel great when your work/future/life depends so heavily on a coin toss. And we’re not yet even talking about being at the mercy of an immigration officer.
If you check housing prices, the picture gets even worse. Even with seeing how crazy Seattle housing market is, Vancouver beats us easily with their residential property pricing.
- Weather is much worse in Canada than in SF (comparing with this because Balaji tweet did)
- 20% foreigner tax on home ownership
- crime in Vancouver is about as bad as SF
- rent to income ratio is higher, so less disposable income
- lower tech in general, less fiber penetration, worse wireless telecom
- job switching is harder because of sparse job market
OP described Indians so mentioning that there is a massive backlash in the mainstream against Indian immigration. Long healthcare waits and overall poor patient experience isn't a problem since doesn't apply to emergency care in either place and Indians can get better care in Indian private system for elective.
- The foreign buyers tax doesn’t apply to those with PR.
- A very quick search doesn’t support the claim that crime is as high [0].
- Rents in Vancouver absolutely are high, but tech pays significantly over the median. I’m not sure there are good statistics to compare here.
- Vancouver itself has pretty broad fibre coverage, I get gigabit for ~$70/mo, but yes mobile telecom is more expensive.
- I don’t really have enough data to comment on that last point.
[0] https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Can...
Which provider? I will be arranging internet in my new home in a few weeks and it would be great to have this rate.