Pursuits
Millennials Flee Vancouver for More Affordable Cities
- Area is `going to lose its tech edge,' institute founder says
- Young people moving to places including Kelowna, `Tectoria'
Millennials Flee Vancouver for More-Affordable Cities
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Kevin Oke had a Vancouver millennial’s dream job, working as lead designer at a video-game company whose clients included Atari and Ubisoft Entertainment SA, but he still couldn’t afford a house. So he left his native city.
“Housing in Vancouver is insane -- it was insane when I left and it’s more insane now,” said Oke, who co-founded educational-software company LlamaZoo Interactive after moving to Victoria in 2014. “If you’re trying to do the startup thing full-time, it would have been really difficult with all the expenses.”