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by curmudgeon9 3077 days ago
Not to mention the salary difference will get soaked up by real estate differences the moment you decide to buy a house.

Not that Toronto real estate is cheap either. I think Google Waterloo is a great value: high CAD salary but low real estate prices (around half of Toronto).

The optimal play (if you don't want to permanently live in the US) is to go to SF, continue living like a student and sock away your cash while building your reputation, then move back to Canada and work remote with a grandfathered USD salary.