north van dude at VREAA 14 Jun 2010 2:32 pm -
“I moved back here from Ireland, where I was making 225k EUR as a second-line sales manager. It is difficult to find a company that pays that much here- there just isn’t the number of companies looking for talent to drive up salaries. We were in software and had to compete for talent with all these companies- (all located in Dublin with roughly same or less pop than Vancouver) – Google, Yahoo, IBM, Salesforce.com, BMC, Adobe, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Dell, HP…. all brand name players and all paying good wages. The lack of big companies in Vancouver is one of the reasons for high RE prices- Influential citizens have turned it into their own “mini-industry” to replace the real industries that should be here but are not.”
