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by dogruck 3200 days ago
Yes, but the top, hard driving, talent would make the trade and move to the US. Your prerogative is to kick back and chill up north. I'm not hatin -- just pointing out that you're not really a counter example to the point at hand.
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fraqed 3200 days ago
Maybe that's why Canadians are considered so nice, because all the "hard driving" types have left the country and gone, mostly, to the US.
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dogruck 3200 days ago
A reasonable theory. Agreed.
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brailsafe 3200 days ago
What a desperately condescending thing to say. Really it comes down to a matter of perspective on life and your definition of "hard-driving". If your definition of that is writing code for more money, then fine. Other people work a hell of a lot harder, in much worse conditions, for a lot less, and choose to do it in a place where they like to live and the people they enjoy being around. Pretty compelling to me.
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cpncrunch 3200 days ago
It's basically people who want to work at places like google and earn $250k.

Still, there is a lot of "top talent" who chooses not to go that route. Working on my own stuff I get to work on much more interesting and challenging stuff -- as well as making a larger personal contribution to "changing the world" in a small way -- than I would likely achieve if I was working as a software engineer at google. I don't earn as much, but my quality of life is much better.

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