If you are applying from US and want to move to Canada, you need to drop your American mentality. US ma yesto thiyo, yaha chiana... US better, Canada khattam. We hear these words all the time and rightfully so for average Nepali. We, Nepalis will always value job possibility over anything other thing. IT market is saturated and if you are lucky you might get a job within few months of landing. If not, you have to buckle up and do whatever is neccessary to get by. About expenses, it used to be pretty cheap in here. 1 US = 1.52 CDN ( 3 years ago). Now it is 1 US = 1.17 CDN..it has extremly fluctuated in the past..so I guess it is little expensive than before..comparitively , everything is relative ..but we do are made to pay more taxes....