Is it worth it to visit Vancouver BC as a tourist? What about life in Vancouver BC - is it a good place to live?
>>2851799>Is it worth it to visit Vancouver BC as a tourist? Not really.>What about life in Vancouver BC - is it a good place to live?It’s alright, really expensive though. Has its ups and downs like any other place.
>>2851799Best city in Canada but expensive as fuck and the salaries suck.
You cannot afford to live there.
>>2851841Well, there are people who afford to live there, and I think I could become one of them if it was truly worth it. Is it a world class city?
>>2851799living in ontario rn, im going to visit BC soon but it seems like they're 10 years behind Ontario and Quebec unfortunately, you can't even order booze online.
It's for if you're into westernized Asian chicks instead of the "me sucky sucky rong time mistah. Prease give green card" from SEA
>>2851841You probably can but it won't give you a high quality of life.
>>2851847>seems like they're 10 years behind Ontario>LCBO
>>2851799Best place in Canada by a mile if you're rich.
i live here, vancouver is a great place. lots of cool things to see from stanley park, science world, english bay, gas town, granville island, capilano suspension bridges, countless hikes, great camping, really good snow for boarding/skii, pretty good restaurant scene as well.living here is nice, but its expensive with some of the most expensive housing costs in north america, and it rains a lot. but if you do have money its an amazing place
>>2852192I used to live in seattle, would you say vancouver is cooler than seattle?
>>2852242subtract blacks and guns and crimeadd chinese and indians who will work for nothingdivide wages by 2multiply housing prices by 2
>>2852242i think vancouver is cool, but i definitely hear and see a lot of people think it can be "pretentious" "cold"(people) and its obviously not as "cool" as Toronto/New Yorki think seattle is probably a little cooler, but thats based on the general idea that canada is a bit boring and tame compared to america
>>2852320>>2852323just to be clear I really hated seattle. found it to be a generic suburban shithole like the rest of the USA aside from like three cities (NYC, SF, maybe washington dc)
I'm from Vancouver I live in USA now. Not worth visiting unless you are a shitskin then your family will be there in Vancouver.
>>2852340The chinks run Vancouver. Not the shit skins.
>>2852242>I used to live in seattle, would you say vancouver is cooler than seattle?I'd say that Vancouver is arguably more beautiful, and has better Chink food, but Seattle is cooler in every other possible way. The other thing I always found strange was the lack of good bars in Vancouver, especially compared to Seattle or Portland.
>>2852344I found seattle to have almost no positive attributes as a city to be honest with you anon. It just had the same suburban strip mall lifestyle as the rest of the USA aside from basically four or five cities (SF, NYC, maybe LA and Miami and Washington DC) my life in Seattle consisted of driving places and eating at restaurants. my life in San Francisco consisted of hanging out with my friends and going to parties. I preferred SF immensely.
>>2852355>It just had the same suburban strip mall lifestyle as the rest of the USA>aside from LA Miami
>>2851847>you can't be an anti-social alcoholicoh no!!!
>>2852355>>2852366these are the kind of people who give us travel advice
>>2852368Places are fine to visit. For living. Please consult the graph.
>>2852366>>2852368let me clarify, I agree with you guys those places are suburbia hell BUT BUT THEY DO have a unique culture you can't find elsewhere in the usa, and they can actually be legitimately fun places to live!I think they are much better places to live than seattle because of their culture, even though the actual urban planning is very similar
Idk about living there but as a tourist it's probably the best place to see in Canada apart from Quebec
>>2852378Dude. Banff?
>>2852379who tf cares about some mountains
>>2852380a lot of people actually
>>2852369Ah yes, living in a tiny apartment with no land at all is soooo good!! But hey at least they have busses and subways you can piles on with the rest of the bums and disgusting people.
>>2852572>Ah yes, living in a tiny apartment with no land at all is soooo goodyes, it is good because we need COMMUNITY to live, not land
>>2852572There's way more bums in LA then NYC.
>>2852369Durham NC has good city buses and multiple trains a day connecting it to the other major cities in NC, but the city buses are predominantly patronized by you-know-whos. Very few respectable people want to ride on a bus full of you-know-whos, apart from pretty young college students (who are invariably anti-racist liberals). Also, most Americans are lazy lardasses. In Europe, it's completely normal to walk 1 km from your house to the bus station. That's why most people are fit. In America, people drive even the shortest distances becaue the idea of walking a single kilometer is too arduous and a waste of time (that could be spent vegetating on the couch instead).
>>2852573Lmao you are so fresh out of school it's not even funny.>>2852584Enjoy the subway!
>>2852598Yeah that's why the US is suburban hell. People wait in their cars to get Starbucks, use the ATM etc. Nation of lardarses.>>2852584Thanks I will. Crime isn't nearly near as high as you think. Stop reading the NY Post.
>>2852368I'm not that anon, but if you're going to argue that Seattle is a fantastic and cultured place then I'd love to hear your arguments. I used to live in Seattle. I'm currently in equally soulless Bellevue with family. I've lived in King county my whole life and Seattle has always been awful. There's jack shit to do if you're a loner, and the anti social culture basically means you stay a loner because it's seen as too invasive to even say hello to a stranger.
>>2851848>me sucky sucky rong time mistah. Prease give green cardlol the chinks in vancouver act exactly the same
Nothing is worth visiting in engl*sh canada.
>>2852377so your argument is I feel special and like i'm on television in LA its just different you don't get it.
>>2854648As opposed to fr*nch canada that is almost entirely flat and boring as fuck? The only remotely interesting parts in the north are inaccessible unless you go by heli for big $$$. Not to mention the cities are full of typical fr*nch people who do not want you to be there and are rude as fuck if you can't speak a lick of fr*nch
>>2854655>French Canada is almost entirely flatExcept the whole territory is literally covered in mountains?
>>2854655lol the french people are getting replaced at record speed right now. It's hard to believe but it's actually happening
I live in Vancouver. Some days I hate it. But after traveling to 42 countries, and many of those "most livable" cities, I think it's one of the best places in the world even with all the negatives. We have the absolute best Summers of anywhere in the world. It's beautiful here, the access to nature is some of the best of any big cities, the food scene is genuinely fantastic.Let me know if any of you have questions about Vancouver or the region.
>>2854699How do you afford it
>>2854701Honestly, all of Canada is expensive. All big cities in western countries are expensive. You just have to manage. Either get a high paying job or make some sacrifices. Lots of free or cheap activities in Vancouver in the warmer months, and I'm a bit of hermit in the winter.
>>2854709Montreal has all the amenities of Vancouver (maybe smaller mountains, but way more of them), and it's 3x cheaper. I pay 800$ all included for a studio in a central neighborhood.
>>2854774>more mountainsThat's quite surprising. I thought BC was mountain land, and Montreal was in forest land near the lakes. Guessed it was a bit more warmer Siberia tier with swamps and shit.
