I'd lived in Vancouver most of my life and moved to Bay area about 3 years ago.
Vancouver is rather quaint compared to Bay area and is lovely when the weather cooperates, which is about 6 weeks out of the year.
Depite being in high tax California, I still pay less in taxes as percentage of my income compared to BC, even after more than doubling my income in Bay area. Granted, SF is literally a filled with human feces everywhere and not as nice and clean as Vancouver, but I can put up with that with all the extra dough rolling into the bank account.

Housing cost is about twice the cost in Vancouver, which is on par with the increase in pay.
As for healthcare, it's a moot point since almost all workers are covered by their employer. Another interesting anecdote, I met a retired physician from Manitoba that moved to Portland in the 90's. He worked in both Manitoba's provincial health system and in Kaiser Permanente in Oregon. He told me in no uncertain term that Kaiser's quality of care is far superior to Manitoba's.
I believe the intolerants are now almost exclusively on SJW's side, with high profile cases to proof it from Jordan Peterson, Lindsay Shepherd to Gad Saad. The scary part is the intolerance has state backing in Canada with the soy boy in-chief.

You're missing out.
I moved down to Bay area and easily double my pay, weather is great, politics are entertaining and watching SJWs lose their mind is a plus.
But good for Canada, eh? Keep advancing the science, for peoplekind!

Is Obama going to be indicted in UK for tampering with Brexit vote?

Are we going to talk about the abomination called Mother! ? Is that horror too?

Remember WhatsApp copying Blackberry Messenger? And all the iterations of IM app from ICQ, AIM, etc?

Vancouver is not massive at all for tech, compared to Seattle, only 2h due South by car. And if you go further south to Bay area, then it's a whole other world of massive. I know because I've lived in those places. Note that everything is at least twice as expensive in Bay area compared to Vancouver, including the pay.

It's free and perpetually in Beta!

Webpass, I guess part of Google Fiber now. No cap, usually gets around 500Mbps up and down. Paying USD 40/month.

Just clean up Tenderloin and build high rises there. It's a natural extension of FiDi and Downtown. You solve the homeless and housing problem in 1 shot., Win-win.

Try the Miband 2 from Xiaomi. It was conceived as a "smart" activity tracker but has slowly morphed into a basic "smart" watch through several iterations. At around $25, I can't really complain about anything. It's water proof and has basic display for time, notification from the phone, steps, etc. One charge lasts around 3-4 weeks. Oh, it has heart rate sensor as well.

Just level down the whole Tenderloin and build up there. There would be plenty of land to build 25-35 stories apartment buildings and the housing problem will be solved in under 5 years.

I have anecdote the other way. My rental unit was promised 200Mbps by Webpass and I can attest that I can get 500Mbps up and down easily.

One thing to remember is that those older wireless routers such as the venerable WRT54G or even the Linksys WRT610/E3xxx CANNOT handle such high speed. It's likely the router that is the bottleneck. I just realized this a while ago and had to get a higher end AC wireless router and voila, 500 Mbps without any problem, whereas previously the older wireless routers tops up at 150-200 Mbps.

Why not use IPv6? Webpass has already supported IPv6 for a while and I can verify that it works well.

Google Hangout?