Without exception, to become truely famous/successufl... every Canadian has gone to America.
Gretzky, Shania Twain, Brian Adams, Mike Myers, ALL OF EM..
Canadians are great innovators, but the money... the pure capitalism will always be in the USA.
Plus.. multi-national tax positioning can be useful I'm sure in some way shape or form.
Vancouver is interesting because it's west coast..alot of 'culture' that like games similar like Toronto in that respect.. California is west coast so from a standpoint of doing a trip where you go visit your GROzone installations for a day and then go north and visit the Snakes location on a business trip..
I've never been to Chicago.. just heard half of it is all violence.. the other half is real nice.