Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door?

Roblimo writes "A study by accounting and consulting giant PriceWaterhouseCoopers claims Canada could lose up to 75,000 IT jobs by 2010 to offshore outsourcing, but could also *gain* 165,000 jobs through U.S. outsourcing contracts. The trick is, according to this story at IT Manager's Journal, that while Indian, Chinese, and Russian programmers may cost 80% less than U.S. programmers, the time zone, language, legal, and other problems involved with sending work half way around the world can eat up much of the labor savings, while Canadian programmers are nearby, speak English with nearly American accents, have a similar culture and legal system, and get paid 40% less than U.S. programmers. Might be time to think about moving North, eh?"

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Canadian tech support is a pain in the ass

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay, type su, eh?
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Re:And get paid 40% less? No thanks.

[Anonymous Coward]

paid 40% and taxed 50%!

Re:Well, I'm one example

[irokitt]

So, you're incapable of using the tech support mantra:

"Well, it works on my end!"

The land of the free

[Anonymous Coward]

Although our legal system is "similar", we lack equivalents to silly little things like the DMCA and the Patriot Act.

On the other hand, we're responsible for Celine Dion. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize profusely.

Re:The land of the free

[Stoutlimb]

Having listened to pop music from the united states, and watched their tv, I can certainly say that the Canadian Content rule is most certainly a form of quality control. :-))

But seriously though, US media is a threat to national unity. If we allowed the airwaves to be flooded with US stuff, we'd lose a good deal of our Canadian identity.

Canada, a Freedom Loving America

[Cavio]

It seems that the whole "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave" has been outsourced to Canada. While we fight our war on drugs, Canada has sane drug laws. While we meddle in the affairs of every nation on Earth, Canada just keeps on making beer.

Beer == Good.

So, bring it on. Outsource me to Canada. I'll move there, what with their reasonable immigration policies, and shack up with a burly lumberjack babe and start my life anew.

heh

[Mr_Silver]

speak English with nearly American accents

<obligatory British joke>
So they pronouce English slightly better then? ;)
</obligatory British joke>

In my opinion ...

[furball]

It's aboot time people recognized this. Ootsourcing is better done in Canada. At least you can understand what people are talking aboot.

Can we trust them?

[NinjaFodder]

I'm not sure that we can trust the Canadians yet. I'm still recovering from Brian Adams.

Burn down our whitehouse, then Celine Dion...

[Crasoum]

... You guys have no limit for your evil. Can I move to Canada?

well then

[mpost4]

We can really blame canada.

Re:And get paid 40% less? No thanks.

[iMMersE]

You bin to Canada recently?

I tried to bin Canada last week, but it was way too big, and the garbage collectors wouldn't take it.

Re:Why not outsource to me in West Virginia...

[kmankmankman2001]

Why not outsource to me in West Virginia...? Probably afraid of the language barrier. :)

Wow, NYC is a freaking Xanadu!

[Apostata]

"3)Living in NYC has it's own advantages. Here, I can go Tango Dancing every day of the week, see the best museums, never have to drive the death machine we call an automobile, can go out drinking without worrying about how I am getting home, can see world class plays, theater, etc. etc. etc. Living in Canada would be a marked decrease in my Life Style. It might be OK for people that don;t care about this kind of stuff, but not for me."

Wow, what's Tango Dancing? Museums? What the hell are plays?

This NYC place seems pretty darned fancy-looking! I should save up my 40% weaker Canadian dollars, sell my moose lodge, canoe down there, and experience what can only conceivably be a DREAM CITY IN THE **KING CLOUDS, YOU SELF-INFATUATED NY MORON.

You think freaking Tango lessons set NYC apart from the world? If *that's* your basis for judgement, you'd do us all a favour and stay put, friend.

Re:Standard of living CanadaUS

[clintp]

By almost every major metric, the Canadian standard of living is currently higher than the USA, and has been for a number of years.

That's because here in the US we don't use the metric system. Duh!

I don't aplogize about Celine.

[asoap]

With our military the way it is...

Celine Dion is our weapon of mass destruction!

Heck, if we ever attack a country, she's on the front line singing her heart out. After one of her Monster Ballots, we just walk in with our hockey sticks and Zambonies and clean up the enemies. We don't need fancy things like short range tactical missles, or ugh.. tanks, guns, ammunition.

Actually, on a serious note, I like it that we don't spend anything on military. In the simpson's they used the joke (excuse me if I get this wrong):

Scorpio: "What country do you like the least, Italy or France"

Homer: "France"

Scorpio: "No one ever says Italy"

Then Scorpio blows up France. Well I like it that to the rest of the world Canada = Italy. The U.S. = France.

I can just imagine terrorist meeting... "Guys what country do you like the least? Canada or the US?"

-asoap

Re:Canadian-Hungarian notation

[ReplicantSD1]

Close, but we would actually say this: sZedBufferEh

We're full up! Please go away!

[MagikSlinger]

Nope, nope. We're all full up here in Canada. Yes, please go away.

You won't like it here. It's cold, yeah.... It's 25 C here in Vancouver. Brrrr.

Yes, that's right. Our healthcare system sucks. That's right. Please go away. *cough*, *cough*. Just ignore the international reports saying we has slightly better life expectancies.

Try Mexico or, maybe, India...?