[eli_gottlieb]

>One makes so little money there, housing is really steep, and it's hard to responsibly start a family.

How's that different from your average major metro area in the USA? Or, for that matter, anywhere else in the First World right now?

[DarkKomunalec]

3rd most unaffordable in the world: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/demographia-i...

[durge]

I can't really speak from experience on the Canadian mid-major metros, as I only experienced 'big' Vancouver. But there is a bevy of American cities where you can actually save and have little ones (Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Sun Belt, Des Moines). Maybe it's like that in Ontario? Anyways, looking over the next twenty years of my life, the opportunity cost of living in Vancouver was huge, and not just because of the exchange rate.