[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.