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Canada recruits high-skilled foreigners in US β and gets 10,000 applications
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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Yes, but, money isn't everything. I once left a high paying job in the US to come back to Canada, get paid less, and be way happier.
Working for a US company and living in Canada is a good way to go, but is harder to swing if you are not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
Plus it sounds like the people they're talking about in this scenario may have their H1-B revoked and they wouldn't have a job or a visa to stay in the US at all. Canada, even with a lower paying job seems like a good option.
My company has a bunch of H1-B engineers who got Trumped out of the US and we moved them to Canada. Now they're paying Canadian taxes that benefit us all. I was Candian employee no. 3 when I was hired 3 years ago. Now there are close to 40. A little over a year ago they setup a Canadian subsidiary. My contract has always been governed by Canadian and Ontario labour laws. Its a very good arrangement.
Lower pay doesn't work for everyone if theycan'tt pay their bills
I doubt high-skilled tech workers are worried about being able to pay their bills.
I understand where you're coming from, but we're taking about having a really high paying job in the US or a high paying job in Canada. The types of jobs getting H1-B visas are high paying tech jobs.
Things are also more expensive than you might think in the US. And there always seems to be a lot of social pressure to spend more money in the US - more so than Canada in my experience. So in a lot of ways, you could be better off in some places even if you have a lower paying job.
Why did Canadian companies make you happier? I've worked for both, we definitely have the same work culture as the US, at least in the Ontario tech sector.
Canada in general made me happier. Not necessarily the companies specifically. As much as we can complain about our health care issue here in Canada, the social safety net here is significantly better. And I had "good" insurance coverage in the states. It was a constant fear of getting sick or injured and ending up in the wrong hospital and not getting covered (or any number of other reasons). Add to that the social pressure to spend money on everything in the states. Everyone I knew down there was in debt up to their eyeballs, no matter how much they made. It was ridiculous.