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by BetterLateThan 4898 days ago
> Let's just ignore the fact that MS has a development centre in Vancouver

Wow, MS centre! It will save us all. And they don't have MS centers anywhere else, right? Vancouver here.

* All of Canada has as many my profile job openings as Seattle.

* Salaries are lower here than there.

* Taxes are higher here than there.

* Prices are higher here than there.

* Selection of everything is miserable here.

* It's impossible to have a career if you can't talk hockey for 2 hours. Nobody gives a f$%k about your abilities - you must be "one of us".

> How's your health care?

Pathetic, thank you. I just waited 4 months for an ultrasound. They said everything was OK - but why then would I have insisted on it in the first place?

> BC starts to become very, very attractive

Do you have a house for sale? Because it sure sounds like it. BC does not start to become very, very attractive to anyone ambitious and able - and these guys will go to US for the same reason that all ambitious and able Canadians move to US.

There are M.D. taxi drivers and Ph.D. WalMart cashiers here - because their names are Davinder and Reza rather than Sean and Tim.

No doubt, BC is a great place for natural resources barons, drug traffickers, porn and gambling shops, and bribe-happy Party officials from China. It's extremely neophobic, hypocritical and hostile to changes.

YMMV

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You're right. What am I talking about? Vancouver is a shit hole. It's clear that nobody wants to live here.

I mean just look at where it ranks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_most_livable_cities

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertypicturegalleries...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-world%E2%80%99s-best-place...