Depressed southern neighbor here looking for some advice. I’m sure you can guess where I’m going with this, so let’s not mince words: what’s some advice on getting to the Vancouver area, obtaining a visa, and a job, etc.? I’m not really looking for nitty gritty details on legal processes and what not, I can find that info documented in various places online (unless you just have a really good link chocked full of info for me). I’m more so looking for some insight from the denizens of the area that know it well.
I’m a millenial that’s been in tech my whole life. I know it’s a massive field, but because I’ve been on linux terminals since I was a wee lad I know how to do… well almost everything that has a job title for it and even at an older age I can pickup new languages and systems with relative ease. Besides that, I’m also an electrician, mechanic, and musician. I’ve been loosely looking for jobs, but so far what I’ve seen seems to be in the city and I need to refine my search. I generally prefer to be closer to the forest, or the mountains (glacier snowboarding is on my bucket list, before they all melt), but I wouldn’t turn down the city if it came down to that.
What are some not-so-populated areas of the west coast that still have at least a semblance of infrastructure? I don’t really care about nightlife, I just want to do tech things and mind my own business without everything that’s happening around me right now (I’m currently in the epicenter of the southern maga dipshits).
I’m curious, too… what’s the temperature like as far as Canadians accepting educated, healthy, non-fascist US citizens? In other words, do you think there might be some bias against me just because of where I currently reside? Take note how I don’t call myself American, because my ancestry is not indigenous to this land. I just happened to be born here.
Any advice on places to checkout/avoid, companies to checkout/avoid, etc. would be awesome and I appreciate it.
And just in case it’s a requirement, you should also know that I put a spoonful of Maple Syrup in my coffee every morning, nothing else. It’s a magical thing! Started doing that many moons ago and I’ll never take coffee any other way now.
ETA: After a couple of comments and staring at the map, I probably should have said British Columbia rather than specifying Vancouver, that’s my bad. Seems to me like the remote areas up there may be more my speed.
Just to elaborate a little bit on this, the telecoms in Canada have achieved complete regulatory capture and are essentially an unfettered oligarchy with territorial monopolies. They own and operate their own regulatory body, the CRTC, which lets them do whatever they want and rules whatever way they want them to decide in any situations. Occasionally the government itself steps in to force a tiny fraction of some utterly reasonable demand on them and they scream in every media source (all of which they own) about how they’ve violently murdered and annihilated the entire industry with such horrible rules and then they pettily cancel infrastructure projects and lay people off to make their point before continuing on as completely business as normal as if it never happened because of course it was completely harmless all along.
So that’s the telecom environment here. All coverage and internet access sucks, unless you’re in a major city or along a path between major cities, and this is why. But if you’re in a major city then you have to deal with major city real estate prices. This is the Canadian dilemma. Starlink has been a godsend for many people in rural areas (which is the vast majority of people in Canada, according to our telecoms, where you go down the wrong cul-de-sac and become rural) although with Musk involved that’s just replacing the very evil devils we know with one very evil one we don’t. For the van-living life you’ll need to make that important decision about how you’re going to get connected to modern society, and all of the options you’re going to have will feel really bad. On the whole Starlink will likely be the best of a bad bunch but you’ll have to figure that out for yourself based on whatever situation you find yourself in. Worth keeping in mind though.
Interesting, telecom in CA sounds like everything in the USA.
I don’t actually need an internet connection when it comes to my personal, outside-of-work life. In fact, I would kind of prefer to be disconnected for the most part.
So what you describe actually sounds pretty good to me. I have hundreds of books, solar power, and a guitar. I don’t need the internet except for doing any sort of work. In that case, I will drive to whatever town center is closest. That’s what I do now, I don’t have any internet connection unless I’m at a cafe or something.
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Just to elaborate a little bit on this, the telecoms in Canada have achieved complete regulatory capture and are essentially an unfettered oligarchy with territorial monopolies. They own and operate their own regulatory body, the CRTC, which lets them do whatever they want and rules whatever way they want them to decide in any situations. Occasionally the government itself steps in to force a tiny fraction of some utterly reasonable demand on them and they scream in every media source (all of which they own) about how they’ve violently murdered and annihilated the entire industry with such horrible rules and then they pettily cancel infrastructure projects and lay people off to make their point before continuing on as completely business as normal as if it never happened because of course it was completely harmless all along.
So that’s the telecom environment here. All coverage and internet access sucks, unless you’re in a major city or along a path between major cities, and this is why. But if you’re in a major city then you have to deal with major city real estate prices. This is the Canadian dilemma. Starlink has been a godsend for many people in rural areas (which is the vast majority of people in Canada, according to our telecoms, where you go down the wrong cul-de-sac and become rural) although with Musk involved that’s just replacing the very evil devils we know with one very evil one we don’t. For the van-living life you’ll need to make that important decision about how you’re going to get connected to modern society, and all of the options you’re going to have will feel really bad. On the whole Starlink will likely be the best of a bad bunch but you’ll have to figure that out for yourself based on whatever situation you find yourself in. Worth keeping in mind though.
Interesting, telecom in CA sounds like everything in the USA.
I don’t actually need an internet connection when it comes to my personal, outside-of-work life. In fact, I would kind of prefer to be disconnected for the most part.
So what you describe actually sounds pretty good to me. I have hundreds of books, solar power, and a guitar. I don’t need the internet except for doing any sort of work. In that case, I will drive to whatever town center is closest. That’s what I do now, I don’t have any internet connection unless I’m at a cafe or something.