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In Vancouver I used to spend anywhere rom 80 to 120 minutes commuting one way to downtown core from the suburbs. It was brutal. You then get to the office, have to make quick small chat, settle down, get coffee, go to the bathroom, and another hour has passed before you are reading emails. meetings and then its lunch time. come back and you settle down again, go to the bathroom, meeting. 4 hours remain to get work done but you can't leave at 5 because of traffic. so you stay behind.

Those times I save I directly deliver in value working remote. I can work more hours and I can be more efficient since I'm not tired. not to mention the ridiculous tax and rent costs due to property prices that do not reflect local wages adding to the stress.

yeah, NO THANK YOU. I get local recruiters hitting me up and not only is the salary here ridiculously low, they are either hybrid or require showing up at the office. Vancouver recruiters are a special breed: they won't list salary ranges, and get angry when you ask for it, require 2~3x the work experience for the same position elsewhere, and 40~50% haircut when we have the highest living cost in the region. There's a reason why most of its workforce in tech do not speak English at the office, they rather have new immigrants who can put up with this toxicity, and the management exploits them. Modern day colonialism.