Snowy560

SP: financially probably not clinically.

Ahorvath: I'd still apply for the Spousal Open Work Permit for your wife.

S

Ahorvath

yep I'm CISSP, and CISA, and Prince2. Thanks to everyone.

Snowy560

I manage quite well in Vancouver. I can actually drive and do very short distances. But mainly I get by on public transport.

S

Ahorvath

Never learnt, never needed. I grew up in the eastern block, my parents never had a car, actually very few people owned a car. when I become young adult moved to the capital with perfect public transportation, since that I was always lived at such places where cars were the slower way. Of course, it would be nice to do the weekend shopping by car, but no point to pay to get the driver licence and maintain a car for once a week use.

Honestly, when we get to Vancouver area I don!t want to move to another city or country in the next 20 years. I even don't want to move between houses/apartments I had moved 4 countries in the past 2 years, with an uncounted apartment, temporary accommodations swap.

Siouxie

Oh - just thought! Negotiate a longer paid vacation period - standard here is 2 weeks!

Snowy560

If you decide you need to, one of you can learn.

Quite a few people I know manage without a car. Once a week: you can get a taxi if need be.

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bc2015

Sure, if he wants to sell himself short.

dbd33

Well, we don't do any business in Vancouver because it's not much of a place for computers (we do do business in San Francisco, Seattle, even Calgary) so I have to guess based on:

$100,000 for a new immigrant in that role in the GTA being reasonable. The GTA being the centre for computing in Canada.

The OPs desire to move to a specific town, not a major one for the industry.

Salaries in general being lower in Vancouver. For example, my daughter and her husband would be paid 20% more if they held the same jobs with the same organizations in Toronto or Ottawa. They, like everyone else in Vancouver, put up with low incomes and high property prices for the "lifestyle", presumably one based on drug consumption.

Ahorvath

Question: We just had read some worrying statistics about Vancouver crime rate (group rate, drug gangs). Can you please share what is the real situation there?

Shirtback

Probably no worse than London England.

JonboyE

Unless you plan on a second career in distributing class A drugs it will have no impact on your life whatsoever.

Snowy560

Yes, I agree: you are over thinking this.

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bc2015

Your guesses are inaccurate. Without being too specific, many of my colleagues earn more than that (not me sadly), both at my company and others. And that's just for generic experienced system engineers, not even something as niche as security engineering with certifications.

The IT talent pool in Vancouver has pretty much dried up too, a lot of roles in my company are being filled from overseas now. There is a lot of unfilled demand for experienced engineers.

Ahorvath

Without joke would you be able to send me a link for the openings via pm?


SO what has happened:

the company sent me an offer without an LMIA (yet), they want me to start asap so they offered me to start working remotely. They had offered 100K. So they wanted me to work from London for Candian salary. I wanted to negotiate not about remote work, but salary and relocation package (which they have not offered at all).

After a half hour phone call and an email with our questions, today I had got a message stating that I'm asking for too much and they withdraw the offer.

I was surprised because we didn't demand things just asked about opportunities and I was accepting them to come back with a list or answer like we can do this and that, but others are not possible.

We are guessing that is a smaller size company and they have got afraid because of the salary/relocation cost, or they are not willing to take on the administration overhead of LMIA paperwork.

Any comment, idea, opinion?

Oink

I'm much more likey to be a victim of vilonet crime in Vancouver than London. But then London is miles away from here.