[okatsu]

Please don't spread generalizations like these. I'm sorry about the job situation in your area but I live in a Canadian metropolis where 1) there's no shortage of low-level work and 2) they will pay much more than your average PHP consulting shop. In fact, I maxed out very early what someone can hope to earn at my level of experience.

My point is that your job market is not representative of the whole world and you're acting as if it were.

[chocolatebunny]

what the flying fuck. I live in Toronto and all I see is cloud this and cloud that. I'm an embedded software guy with a lot of embedded software experience and the only people who contact me in Linkedin focus on the one or two lines in my resume about web development.

[sdflkd]

Yet if you did web development you'd (likely) be making 2X+ in America -- provided you were willing to move. Canada doesn't pay.

[okatsu]

According to vocal Trump supporters, America doesn't need or want anything to do with my ethnicity anyways ;)

[sdflkd]

Same with me, but Trump supporters are in low volume in areas where you want to live anyway. :)

[kerny]

Which metropolis are you talking about?

[xvaier]

I'm willing to bet he means Montreal, no shortage of programming jobs over here.