[jb55]

Another Vancouver sw eng here. Only got here 3 years ago. Have to rent, impossible to buy unless I move outside the core. Then why bother living here if I have to live in Surrey? Unhappy with the fact I have to raise my first kid in a 500sqft apartment. Not sure what I'm going to do if I have another. Hoping the market crashes so I can keep living here...

[sbarre]

Come to Toronto. The tech salaries are higher and the real estate market is not amazing but definitely lower, and we have better options for living outside the core without feeling like you're in the burbs.

You lose the ocean and the mountains though, and that can be a really hard sell (source: I moved here 5 years ago from Vancouver).