[serge2k]

I'm so sick of the "moving to Canada" talk. You get to come if we say so, not because it's your backup plan.

I like living where I am now, and I don't want to leave to go back to Canada and earn drastically less with the same (optimistically) expenses. While working on less interesting stuff.

[eloisant]

Let's be honest, Canada (like any other country in the world) is always happy when a wealthy company comes to invest and open an office, especially if it's to recruit qualified workers.

The equation is pretty simple: 1. It will bring jobs to Canadians (the offices won't be made only of expats, for many reasons) 2. Employees will spend their salary in Canada, and pay taxes in Canada 3. Knowledge: interns/employees go work to these companies then may move to Canadians companies or create their own with the knowledge they acquired

Basically it's a big win for the receiving country. Just ask Ireland how it worked for them.

[serge2k]

I'm not talking about Facebook opening an office in Vancouver, I'm talking about "I'm moving to Canada if Trump wins".

[tnzn]

It seems like you have no clue what's going on and what this article is about. It's not about Trump winning, it's about Trump having started to do its shit and forcing companies to find a way to make their employees work since the US doesn't accept them anymore.

[bostand]

The idea is that some VC money follows them to Canada, which has always been what you guys lacked in comparison to SV.

So this will be good for native (??) Canadians too.

[throwanem]

Will it? I gather not all are fond of what such money has done for San Francisco and the Bay Area in general.

[oh_teh_meows]

Is this about the rising cost of housing? My understanding is that it has more to do with nimbyism and proposition 13 than just engineering wages pricing out locals. That said, I don't know about the situation in Canada, so maybe someone can shed some light.