Hiya,
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.
We're a country of mostly trees and fields, so there's no lack of nature. Or remoteness.
I would try to find a map of areas serviced by fibre optic internet, and use that to target regions to look into.
Do note, though, that basically anywhere between the Rockies and, like, Fredericton gets right proper cold during winter.
Good idea on the fibre map!
I've experienced cold-as-shit, but I'm not sure I've experienced proper cold yet. Lowest was -8F (-22C) and even then it only lasted for the coldest part of that night and went just above 0F (-17C) as the sun came out.
I lived in Vermont at the time, house was heated by an oil furnace. The furnace died 2 days before this happened and didn't get replaced until a week after π₯²
For reference, most of Saskatchewan has been below -30 for all of February. Hit -40 on Tuesday. Finally warmed up yesterday. That's a little colder for longer than we usually get, but not by very much. Large parts of Alberta are similar.
The central provinces have pretty extreme temperature swings between winter and summer. BC, southern Ontario and QC, and the maritimes are less extreme.