Whoa. My fiancee and I are talking about visiting Vancouver Island to see if Victoria would be a good place to move. We're opposites in terms of temperature preferences and southwest BC seems to be a good compromise (as well as Canada being a better place to live than the US these days). What's your opinion on an IT grunt moving to that area?
The weather is quite good, it never really gets too cold, the snow lasts for about a day or two most of the time. We get a heck of a lot of rain during the off months, so you better like rain (about the same as Seattle). Living costs are one of the highest in North America, so you need to get used to high rent, expensive housing, food and booze. The IT network here is actually quite good, lots of people in the industry that you can connect with. We have virtually no natural disasters, except for the "big" earthquake that's due to come sometime in the next couple hundred years. Overall its clean, the air is awesome and there is LOTs to do so... yeah generally a great place overall to setup shop.
Bearing in mind we're not talking about moving to Vancouver but Victoria, possibly one of its suburbs. If I can find a job in Vancouver there's always the ferry. I understand that Victoria is comparable to Denver in terms of cost of living.
Whoa. My fiancee and I are talking about visiting Vancouver Island to see if Victoria would be a good place to move. We're opposites in terms of temperature preferences and southwest BC seems to be a good compromise (as well as Canada being a better place to live than the US these days). What's your opinion on an IT grunt moving to that area?
The weather is quite good, it never really gets too cold, the snow lasts for about a day or two most of the time. We get a heck of a lot of rain during the off months, so you better like rain (about the same as Seattle). Living costs are one of the highest in North America, so you need to get used to high rent, expensive housing, food and booze. The IT network here is actually quite good, lots of people in the industry that you can connect with. We have virtually no natural disasters, except for the "big" earthquake that's due to come sometime in the next couple hundred years. Overall its clean, the air is awesome and there is LOTs to do so... yeah generally a great place overall to setup shop.
Bearing in mind we're not talking about moving to Vancouver but Victoria, possibly one of its suburbs. If I can find a job in Vancouver there's always the ferry. I understand that Victoria is comparable to Denver in terms of cost of living.