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Being a tech worker in the US isn’t all that great once you’re building a family and need to consider the education, housing, healthcare impacts of the US system. There is more to life than comp. In particular , having experienced both systems quite intensively, I really don’t agree the healthcare is better in the US.

I certainly encourage young Canadian tech workers to move to the US for a while (as I did) to make some money and see what it’s like.

However, many of us eventually moved back. One of the better deals is to work remotely for US tech while in Canada, to get some of the comp benefits while living in a much better overall country (in terms of many factors - happiness, quality of life, life expectancy, inclusiveness, etc). This will be subjective of course. But I don’t think it’s disingenuous or myopic to be happy that these tech giants are growing in Canada. It keeps people here. Being here makes a difference.