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Check out Calgary. Taxes here are the lowest in Canada. Things are expensive here but, in general, pay rates are commensurate. A nice, but not luxurious, 1 bed + den condo downtown should run you $300K - $350K.
Austin is great for cost of living but pay rates are pretty low in comparison. An average job in Calgary that pays $65K/yr would probably pay $35K - $40K/yr in Austin.
I have always found disposable income to be best in expensive cities.
With your background you should be able to get a job with pay as high as whatever your getting in Vancouver in any major city in the U.S.
Since, you don't like cold winters that means you'll have to start looking south of Canada.
The health care expense is nothing to worry about, since your employer will subsidize that. If you are self-employed in the U.S. health care is much more expense. The difference in affordable housing and nearly all goods being less expense will far out weigh the health care subject.
Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston. Cities in Florida. Phoenix. Las Vegas.
If you want cheap, hot, and easy living Las Vegas is for you. And if you stay away from the strip it is just like any other city
HA! Yeah right. I lived in Vegas during the boom. It has no 'culture'. Few nice places to eat. I never even went to a independent movie theater and saw way too many drifters. Vegas cannot compare to Vancouver.
You could try cities in California, but the housing isn't cheap, and what is cheap probably isn't worth living in. Plus the taxes are ridiculous.
But the central coast region cannot be beat - San Jose etc.
Go to the south too. Asheville or Raleigh-durham region of North Carolina....
You could try cities in California, but the housing isn't cheap, and what is cheap probably isn't worth living in. Plus the taxes are ridiculous.
But the central coast region cannot be beat - San Jose etc.
Go to the south too. Asheville or Raleigh-durham region of North Carolina....
Housing price in Californian cities is high in American standards, but not really in Vancouver standard. Cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego are not more expensive than Vancouver. For example, a two bedroom condo in west LA (a prime location, comparable to Yaletown in Van) starts in the lower 400K.
However you get paid way more than Vancouver, maybe 50% more. Not to mention weather is miles better. By the way, all these cities are close to oceans and mountains and all the outdoorsy stuff as well, if not better.
Housing price in Californian cities is high in American standards, but not really in Vancouver standard. Cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego are not more expensive than Vancouver. For example, a two bedroom condo in west LA (a prime location, comparable to Yaletown in Van) starts in the lower 400K.
However you get paid way more than Vancouver, maybe 50% more. Not to mention weather is miles better. By the way, all these cities are close to oceans and mountains and all the outdoorsy stuff as well, if not better.
Salaries are much higher in LA and San Fran than Vancouver?!? Maybe I misread? Esp for more white collar and professional jobs. Minimum wage is higher in Canada but if you're working a min wage job any of these places we've suggested will be difficult.
California definitely offers more for the money than Vancouver.
Vancouver salaries are even lower than Toronto salaries generally....
Windsor, Ontario. Cheap housing built to a much better standard than what is available in Western Canada. Next to a major US metropolis so you wont miss out on big city amenities. Also has the warmest winter climate and least snowfall in Canada outside the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.
The problem is that there is virtually no economy in Windsor.
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Vegas?
