Canada's immigration website crashes on election night(ctvnews.ca)
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Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-immigration-website-crashes-on-election-night-1.3152231?hootPostID=14d10ea891a36bd74ea02d19ec7cf954
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Canada seems appealing to Americans until you realize you could be earning more in the U.S. while spending less on a bunch of other things.
Don't get me wrong, I love living in Canada and I mostly don't miss living in Bay Area, but most of my friends lament the fact that their salary and career opportunities are a joke compared to what they could have in the U.S. (even adjusting for cost of living).
Don't get me wrong, I love living in Canada and I mostly don't miss living in Bay Area, but most of my friends lament the fact that their salary and career opportunities are a joke compared to what they could have in the U.S. (even adjusting for cost of living).
Montreal startups hiring:
-Transit (transitapp.com)
-Unsplash (unsplash.com)
-Hopper (hopper.com)
-Breather (breather.com)
-Sonder (sonder.com)
-Busbud (busbud.com)
-AmpMe (ampme.com)
-Fuzzy AI (fuzzy.ai)
-Frank & Oak (frankandoak.com)
You can get a pretty nice 1 BR apartment in Montreal for ~$600 US/mo. Incredible bars, beautiful people, great schools, bike paths, and lots of outdoor rinks to play hockey in the winter :-)
FYI: Montreal startups operate in English!
-Transit (transitapp.com)
-Unsplash (unsplash.com)
-Hopper (hopper.com)
-Breather (breather.com)
-Sonder (sonder.com)
-Busbud (busbud.com)
-AmpMe (ampme.com)
-Fuzzy AI (fuzzy.ai)
-Frank & Oak (frankandoak.com)
You can get a pretty nice 1 BR apartment in Montreal for ~$600 US/mo. Incredible bars, beautiful people, great schools, bike paths, and lots of outdoor rinks to play hockey in the winter :-)
FYI: Montreal startups operate in English!
People are not going to move. After every single election in France people say they will move to the US, or to germany, or to... I've never seen anyone moved anywhere.
ps: parts of my family moved out of Hong Kong when it became Chinese again. But that was quite a different situation.
ps: parts of my family moved out of Hong Kong when it became Chinese again. But that was quite a different situation.
As a Canadian who moved away, I must warn you that Canada has a form of dutch disease. Resource extraction investments have a much better risk/return ratio, so the pay doesn't even approach US levels. Thus software doesn't approach the levels of investment you have in the USA. And you thought SF was bad, wait until you see what has gone wrong with the housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver.
I liked Canada and it's sad that I have to live away from my family, but I would be a fool to stay otherwise.
I liked Canada and it's sad that I have to live away from my family, but I would be a fool to stay otherwise.
I don't really get the mindset of "if Trump wins I'm moving to X country." The citizens in all of those countries are much more scared of a Trump presidency than Americans seem to be. It stands to reason that the best place to weather a Trump administration is from within the U.S.
I mean, when your guy is threatening to disband NATO, tear up NAFTA (and rejects free trade as a whole), reinstate torture as official policy, etc...would you rather live in the U.S. or in one of its allied countries?
I mean, when your guy is threatening to disband NATO, tear up NAFTA (and rejects free trade as a whole), reinstate torture as official policy, etc...would you rather live in the U.S. or in one of its allied countries?
I would advice anyone considering moving to a different country to spend some time studying FATCA. Even if you move out of the U.S you will still be responsible for filing taxes every single year unless you renounce your citizenship which is not easy by any means. Foreign banks are required by FATCA law to pass all your financial information to the I.R.S and in some countries they will downright refuse opening a bank account for american citizens to avoid this nuissance.
If you need to leave the U.S. consider moving to Australia. (I did) The cost of living here is high, but the salaries are very high for professionals. If you are a talented thrifty person - you can save a lot of money fast. Good surfing too.
For startups. you get about ~50c back on the dollar from the gov't annually. You don't need to make a single dollar in profit to get that, it is based on the invested capital.
Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions.
For startups. you get about ~50c back on the dollar from the gov't annually. You don't need to make a single dollar in profit to get that, it is based on the invested capital.
Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions.
$20 says the crash is because of all the online jokes about moving to Canada that contain links to this site.
I don't even know how to respond to this. People die trying to make it into the U.S. I'm not a flag-waving jingoist, but the the United States is a f'ing great place to live.
If you're afraid of the US President, moving abroad isn't helpful. His domestic power is severely limited and checks-n-balanced.
Granted, that only counts for fear of a semi-tyrannical president, not necessarily for economic concerns.
Granted, that only counts for fear of a semi-tyrannical president, not necessarily for economic concerns.
I stick to George Carlin's advice: I'm in the front seat and I want the best entertainment. And Trump will deliver the best entertainment of all candidates! I'm staying to watch this circus, pass the pop corn!
Corp tax in Ontario is 15% and free health care. Dev pay also comparable.
Come over :)
Come over :)
It seems like it would be more useful for Silicon Valley to just put their money where their mouth is and declare war. Fund education like crazy, pour a ton of money into environmental causes and just go nuts. Create a useful America.
There actually are more options than just the Canadian cities and there's a site for figuring out your best options: http://teleport.org
My girlfriend and I (Both software devs) would gladly move to Canada with the help of a company employing us. Almost immediately. We have little to no attachment to our current city of Portland.
The major tech centers in Canada have major housing price issues. The housing to salary ratio in Vancouver and Toronto are terrifying.
If any of you have seen an Ottawa winter, you'll understand that the one guy on the night-shift there is too busy trying to figure out how fast he can get to Australia.
No surprises. It runs on Windows with IIS as the web server [0].
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Leaving the country over an election like this seems pretty childish IMO. Why wouldn't you wait until there was, you know, some kind of policy change before making that kind of massive life decision?
I have lived extensively in NL and Denmark. Would give an arm and a leg to move there again. Need to find a job for myself and wife there
What happened or didn't happen to the people running the site between 2004 and now when GWB was re-elected? You'd think that you should be shoring up the website seeing spikes for a while, and it's been over 10 years since that site crash and populations haven't gotten an order of magnitude higher exactly.
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Let's get real. No one is going to Canada. This is just grist and posturing for the social media mill. But it's still fun.
Trump does not take himself seriously, so why should you. The trump presidency is going to be a clusterfuck, gaffes galore, pure comedy but hopefully eventually harmless and the bigger risk is people overreacting.
Seriously nothing can be worse than the sinister and duplicitious behind the scenes status quo represented by Hilary Clinton and her ilk. This is 4 years for the entrenched frauds and clowns in politics and media to reassess their ruling strategies as it appears nearly everyone can now see through their bullshit and crave honesty and sincerity even if its ugly.
Trump does not take himself seriously, so why should you. The trump presidency is going to be a clusterfuck, gaffes galore, pure comedy but hopefully eventually harmless and the bigger risk is people overreacting.
Seriously nothing can be worse than the sinister and duplicitious behind the scenes status quo represented by Hilary Clinton and her ilk. This is 4 years for the entrenched frauds and clowns in politics and media to reassess their ruling strategies as it appears nearly everyone can now see through their bullshit and crave honesty and sincerity even if its ugly.
Is it good or bad news that the Australian immigration website is still up [1]?
1. https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/457-
1. https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/457-
This probably has more to do with Patch Tuesday than the extra 500 page loads it got.
There's more to it than just sour grapes, there are minorities legitimately concerned about what their future in America looks like, would not be surprised if they made up a decent chunk of the visitors to that site.
Canada is not bad if you feel comfortable in that weather.
There are some cultural differences, but at a professional level it is very similar to the US.
They do seem friendlier though. Much friendlier.
There are some cultural differences, but at a professional level it is very similar to the US.
They do seem friendlier though. Much friendlier.
Well, https://teleport.org is still up, for searching 200+ other cities you could move to...
I wonder how this might affect startups in Canada? Will it be easier to hire American programmers? Will more investors come up north?
- I find leaving your country only because you didn't vote for the winner is rather cowardly, you can still do something about it, we're not quite talking systemic harassment yet...
- as a friend of mine pointed out, Canada is not a consolation prize for disgruntled americans, it's a real country, with its own real people and its own real problems
- having just aquired my canadian permanent residence after years and lots of money, it was a harrowing process. Clogging the already dysfunctional immigration system en masse as a whim is not just stupid, it's insulting to people currently going through immigration, and downright threatening to people who are in very real danger
If you're a disgruntled US citizen, I can understand your frustration, but please don't take this lightly.