Vancouver isn't really as expensive as people say, aside from real estate. (2015, how much)
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No, Vancouver is way worse than Northern California...North Cali is miles better.....San Francisco and surrounding areas can be and are very expensive but the opportunities (and salaries) are not comparable to Vancouver....night and day.
At least in Vancouver you don't have to pay $3,000 a month for a single bedroom apartment.
I would be willing to pay 16% more for everything if I could live in Vancouver instead of Portland. It's a much better city so it's totally worth it.
That is a matter of opinion, whereas I am stating facts. I have lived in both Vancouver and Portland and I far prefer Portland though I am not fan of either city.
At least in Vancouver you don't have to pay $3,000 a month for a single bedroom apartment.
I would much rather pay the higher rent and get the much higher salary in the San Francisco Bay area than live in Vancouver. I have lived in both areas. However it is all a matter of personal preference and there is no right or wrong.
Alberta has no sales tax. Nunavut has no sales tax. The Yukon has no sales tax and the NWT.
Also BC has a provincial sales tax of 7%. Not hall provinces have merged the GST into a HST.
I said all Canadian provinces have sales tax - at a minimum of 5% (GST) - what's wrong with that? Alberta has no sales tax? I am sure they still have to pay 5%.
I would much rather pay the higher rent and get the much higher salary in the San Francisco Bay area than live in Vancouver. I have lived in both areas. However it is all a matter of personal preference and there is no right or wrong.
$3000 in San Fran, $1600 in Vancouver, the difference is $1400 a month 17k a year.
One is very likely to make $17k more in San Fran for the same kind of skills, not to mention other than housing, everything in San Fran is cheaper, including buying consumer goods, or traveling.
I would be willing to pay 16% more for everything if I could live in Vancouver instead of Portland. It's a much better city so it's totally worth it.
Ar eyou living in Portland??...if you do, actually you should thank your lucky stars that you live in the US where you can have so many choices instead of being stuck living in Vancouver....
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At least in Vancouver you don't have to pay $3,000 a month for a single bedroom apartment.
I can easily find condos outside of the SF core for way less than $3000 a month....it took me 30 seconds, google and zillow are your friends .....depends of where your job is.....nice condos for less than 2 grand a month (even 2 bedrooms) in the cute little town of Los Gatos for example where I actually have friends ....and is not unusual in the area to have college grads, depending on your skills, having job offers in the 6 figure range....dream on about that in Van....
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It is 12% total when you add the 5% GST federal tax which all provinces pay.
then it is 6.5% for Washington State. The other 3.5% are local/city tax. But this is not accurate, because you still have to pay the 9.5% in Washington and 12% in BC on top of the price.
I said all Canadian provinces have sales tax - at a minimum of 5% (GST) - what's wrong with that? Alberta has no sales tax? I am sure they still have to pay 5%.
Those US states have zero sales tax, period.
And people wonder why America's infrastructure is falling apart... when nobody wants to pay a penny for our roads and bridges and railways, and everyone wants to be a free-rider sucking off on existing public utility. The rest of the income taxes all go to a bloated military and bankrupt social security system.
Most OECD developed countries have a standardized national Value-Added Tax of on average 20%. Even China, the so-called capitalist haven, imposes a 17% VAT on most goods and services. Germany is 19%. The UK is 20%. Even Japan is realizing that it cannot keep its 8% sales tax intact and is in the process of going up to 10%.
And people wonder why America's infrastructure is falling apart... when nobody wants to pay a penny for our roads and bridges and railways, and everyone wants to be a free-rider sucking off on existing public utility. The rest of the income taxes all go to a bloated military and bankrupt social security system.
Most OECD developed countries have a standardized national Value-Added Tax of on average 20%. Even China, the so-called capitalist haven, imposes a 17% VAT on most goods and services. Germany is 19%. The UK is 20%. Even Japan is realizing that it cannot keep its 8% sales tax intact and is in the process of going up to 10%.
Good point.
Add to this the fact that policies like "no sales tax on clothes" are cheap tactics to "gain" revenue. For example, New Jersey offers "no sales tax on clothes/shopping" only to attract tourists visiting NYC. And Texas offers low corporate taxes to companies around the country to "help them" relocate their businesses/jobs while hurting the home state.
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