What do you think of Vancouver?

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Steve J

It is a very nice and multicultural city with lots of friendly people. Downtown look really cool with all the skyscrapers. Crime and Homelessness have become big problems lately.

alex

im a native vancouverite and whenever i come from traveling i am always in awe at how wonderful a city it is and how lucky i am to live here.

ãƒ„ TURN THAT FROWN UPSIDE DOWN..

I love Vancouver. It is the best city ever.

Deasel98

i've been there once, and i love it. The only bad part I saw was the downtown east side (I ended up there accidentally).

Ed P

Born and raised here 69+ years .I avoid the east end at night but love the town

chuckles951

I loved it. I lived there 20 years and would still be there if I had not been offered my dream job in Los Angeles.

c_de_angelus

I love Vancouver. I especially like going Downtown at Christmas... all the decorations, the snow on the mountains. The mountains can still take my breath away after all these years. Even all the new condo towers have their own kind of beauty that adds to the Vancouver skyline. It really is a beautiful city.

porn again

Not warm enough in the summer, fairly mild in the winter but too wet, strange people, terrible pizza, overabundance of sushi, overall a little snooty and frigid.
Also, idiotic government, and a tendency to promote itself as being green, which is BS.

Kevin

Best city ever except the nasty parts like hastings and east Vancouver.

ash1

lived there for 1yr and loved it. Nice scenery and love all the asian restaurants. I also like the rain, so it suited me:)
only thing is downtown is a bit dead at night compared to other cities...i know granville is pretty lively but thats just one street.
but id still go back

Pagan Dan

I was born and raised in Vancouver, and I will be moving back next year after an absence of almost forty years. My father says that he is so old that he remembers when Mount Pleasant was pleasant. (it actually used to be, by the way). I'm old enough to remember when the Oakridge Shopping Centre at Cambie and W 41st was just bush. I even remember June 1958. I was just a little kid, but I remember when the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge (Second Narrows in my day) collapsed during construction and nineteen workers were killed. I still think of that (with gratitude but not fear) whenever I drive to North Van.

I also remember:

1. a toll on the Lions Gate Bridge.
2. Harry Rankin and Tom Campbell locking horns when they were alderman (the term in those days) and mayor respectively.
3. when the junk man had a horse and wagon, and eggs and milk were delivered.
4. the scandal when Wreck Beach (the nude beach) opened up--and a local church lady got hurt on her way down the slope to give a piece of her mind to the naked people. (The Bible tells us to clothe the naked, but I don't think the good Lord meant for us to climb down embankments to scold sunbathers).
5. working at the White Spot as a carhop, and spilling a chocolate shake INSIDE a girl's dress. The fabric sort of went forward when she leaned over to hook in the tray and (only being sixteen) it was the first time I had ever seen a pair of those--except in National Geographic of course.
6. Rolf Harris, and popular Australian singer and comedian, who wrote a song about Vancouver.

The chorus of the Rolf Harris song is a good summary of my attitude to my home city.

"The more you try to grind it down,
The better I like Vancouver town".

A lot has changed in the meantime. Vancouver seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it kind of place.

At the end of the day, Vancouver is my favourite city in Canada, despite its well-publicized problems.

simplyymeee

i love vancouver. the only problem is that it rains too much, and the sky is grey all the time...kinda depressing =P

I'm from Vancouver, and I always heard people say it's the "best city in the world" but I found that a little ridiculous, even though I really loved Vancouver.

I've moved to Ontario for university, and I've had the chance to see Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and other places in South Western Ontario, and in my opinion Vancouver is easily the best city in Canada, and I tell everyone to at least visit once. I'll be moving back after university.

It has problems and problem spots, but so do most cities. I love the laid-back attitude, the nature and how close it is, downtown and all the other neighbourhoods.

I would recommend Douglas Coupland's "City of Glass" it's a collection of snippet descriptions and photos!

Adeeb

i visited it yesterday to UBC..the traffic sucks man...
surrey is sucking too as well as other's....
govt. needs to do somethin abt the traffic!!!

other than that its a good place to live in. Very fast happening place, busy place!!1

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