A good place to live for a software dev?

Hey mates,

Originally posted that in r/fican/, but figured I'd have more responses here, so... I'm moving to Canada in about half a year.
I'm a Senior Software Engineer (Ruby and Rails), fluent English speaker, white european male if that ever matters. What are some places I can look into for finding job and settling down in suburbs?
Criteria can be:

1. Good enough pool of jobs so that I won't struggle to find one once I land (I am really good at what I do, around 8 years of experience, worked with multiple production 2-4k requests/minute projects in english-speaking environments, so basically I can show and prove my skills quite well). I have around 6-10 months of expenses saved up in advance for Canada.
2. If the place will resonate with me, I'd prefer to eventually buy a house somewhere in suburbs, so house prices should probably be not Toronto-style :)
3. Salary-to-cost of living ratio, both for my house goal and eventual FI (I have a financial independence/early retirement goal in mind), I'm really interested in this one to be quite high (e.g. Toronto does not seem to fit in due to living costs and house prices).
4. I am not speaking French as of yet, I am keen to learn if that helps me achieve my goals, I think that's a dope and fun language to know anyways
   I am totally fine with all kinds of weather, actually I love snow and cold, so the weather is not really a factor for me.
   Dear Canadians, what should I do?
   Thanks heaps, I owe you guys some beers.

Edit: I am coming alone, no spouse, kids, grandpas, cats, dogs or parrots