Having worked in Toronto&#x27;s tech scene for almost two decades I just have a big &#x27;meh&#x27; response to it.<p>I now work at Google in Kitchener, and commute from a hobby farm near Hamilton. Quality of life is outstanding. I dread ever having to work in Toronto proper again.<p>The startup scene in Toronto is a clique. The quality of management talent is sad. After working as employee #4 in a Toronto startup, I jumped ship to work for a late stage startup HQ&#x27;d in NYC and the contrast in their management skills and treatment of employees was night and day. Working at a &#x27;hip&#x27; company in Toronto they expect you to feel blessed and to take intense sacrifice on their behalf just because you have the privilege of working for something that isn&#x27;t a bank or insurance company. Meanwhile compensation lags significantly behind what you&#x27;d get elsewhere in NA.<p>And then the rest of the non-startup scene in Toronto is primarily large financial companies, and the work is soul crushingly boring.