> Virtually all of the top performers at my school left for the USA immediately after graduation. [...] Turns out doubling or tripling your take home compensation is absolutely worth it. [...] You can buy a house instead of renting an apartment with roommates. You can afford to marry and have children. You can buy all the things the government would've provided you had it not been dysfunctional.

And how does the "dysfunction" of the current Canadian government compare to what is happening in the US, in your eyes?

> Plus, there are just more jobs in SWE in the USA.

There is the rational answer... for graduates in software.