Vancouver a good place to live in?

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Wondersoftheworld

1. Cost of living here is expensive and gets even more expensive due to Taxes. Means: Everything you buy a 13% of it will be added on it. So a really expensive thing will be even MORE expensive.

2. Well, there are ALOT of different people in Vancouver. All from different cultures, towns, countries. The city is mostly filled with Asians (Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Iranian). And a large part of it, especially cucitlom is Indians and Natives (Phillipinos).

3. The environment in Vancouver, is SOOO Green. Meaning its basically all trees and grass. hardly any fun malls over here. for a nature person this place is heaven, for a cool, mall type of person (My type), its as boring as hell.

4. Attractions and Famous places include places like: Granville Island, Downtown, The airport (great inuit statue there), and the Metro-town mall (The only awesome mall over here that includes over 450 shops), and the Playland which is only open in the summer.

5. Criminal Rate here is Very low for the 10 years i have lived here, i have never seen any get shot, or shoot at someone.

6. Education here is very good. The only University that i know about is UBC (University of British Colombia) {http://www.ubc.ca/} Which is actually quite well known over the world.

Overall, Vancouver is a great place to live. Safe, Well Educating, And multi-cultural as well. So, well, if you like a calm quite city, this is the city for you. ;)

Hope you are well informed now, for anymore information email me at: alex.mikzes@yahoo.ca

fatsausage

I have lived both in Toronto and Vancouver and I much prefer Vancouver. The University of British Columbia has a great location. There is also Simon Fraser University.
There are lots of Chinese - I do not know whether or not there are Filipinos.
The climate is much milder than Toronto.
You should also check out Victoria although I believe the Universities in Vancouver are better.

Ed P

its cheaper to live in the suburbs Burnaby Has a large Phillipine population My wife is a filipina and lots of friends You will be welcome.like any big city it has its problems people are nice. Lots to see & do Climate is mild UBC Simon Fraser And BCIT good schools Medicare for all. hospital

freeside49

UN says its one of the best cities in the world. usually Sydney, Aust. and Vancouver, Cdn. alternate #1 and #2 spots on the best list .
The ocean, the mountains, the wilderness at your doorstep, the greenery, the trees, the flowers, the climates a bit dreery in winter (lots of rain) but you acclimatize. A few days snow here and there in December/Januray to keep it a true season.
Moved here in 85 from Toronto, Ontario knowing no one and have never ever looked back (except maybe at Christmas!)

Jason A

1) expensive for the most part... but you can make do for a short while on limited income if you have to.

2) Very friendly. Every culture you could imagine. Huge Indian and Chinese population as well as long time established Italian, Greek, Polish and other European cultures. North Van has a large Persian/Iranian culture and there is everything else under the sun. If you are a specific group? It's here... I guarantee it.

3) Environment could mean either personal (great here) or wild life (best you will find anywhere... really.

4) attractions are not much... sorry. there are some... like PNE, whistler, suspension bridge, tons of hiking, tons of skiing/snow boarding, **** load of golf etc... but nothing really unique.

5) certain areas are worse than others, but pretty good over all. I'd say medium to low crime rate.

6) Great universities if you can get in. Both SFU and UBC are world renowned for their engineering. You'll be fine as long as your good enough :)

Good luck and hope you like it! :)

All I know is they have amazing weed, that should be enough incentive.. plus the Canucks are cool.

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