[dquail]

Hootsuite, A thinking ape, indochino, unbounce, just to name a few doing well. There's only ONE bay area ... but Vancouver ain't doing bad. I've run an internship program placing top 1% Canadian University students for 4~8 months in the bay area and SFU, UBC and Uvic are pumping out great engineers. Only Waterloo is better. SF is a super short flight away, and Vancouver is the type of city you can actually recruit people to MOVE to. There's not many cities like it.

[mahyarm]

As a guy who grew up in Victoria, went to UVic, lived in Seattle and then moved to the bay area, Seattle can pretty much beat Vancouver & Victoria on all of those metrics. On top of it you can recruit all of those BC engineers with TN visas, and home is just a few hours drive (or boat) away.

Why live & work in Vancouver when you can live & work in Seattle for half the price and twice the income? Literally.