I have a lot of love for Vancouver, but the strange insistence on low salaries in an expensive housing market, with serious traffic and physical natural barriers to transportation, is a real problem.<p>I know of several developers, whose advice and preference is to move out of the city (closer to skiing&#x2F;biking&#x2F;etc) and work remotely for a US company.<p>There is plenty of evidence of the foreign property issue, and the willful ignorance of the government.  Besides everything else posted, here&#x27;s an academic case study:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.nationalpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;in-a-six-month-period-70-of-detached-homes-sold-in-vancouvers-west-side-went-to-mainland-china-buyers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.nationalpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;in-a-six-month-peri...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;ayan604&#x2F;ownership-patterns-of-single-family-homes-sales-on-the-west-side-neighborhoods-of-the-city-of-vancouver-a-case-study" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;ayan604&#x2F;ownership-patterns-of-sing...</a>