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HelloHockeyFans · 12-19-2013, 02:26 PM

I've lived in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver for more than 8 years in each city.

I'm definitely not a fan of Vancouver. The "great weather" and "beautiful city" labels are completely overstated since the great weather is really only from June to September, so if 4 months of the year of fantastic weather is good enough, then fine, but you need to realize that the other 8 months is overcast skies with no sunshine and rain probably 80% of the time. Also, -5 in Vancouver feels colder than -5 in Calgary and Toronto... A LOT colder.

As for the people of Vancouver, there's good and bad like anywhere. The 20 - 35 year old crowd that actually goes out to party (more on this later) seem to have a high percentage of ######s and idiots of the alpha male variety for sure from my observation. The theory that me and my friends have is that this has been believed / known for a long time now by locals and thus the 'normal' people in Vancouver don't really party regularly except on big occassions (New Years or Halloween) because they too despise the crowd. This leaves only people who belong in that crowd (mostly) going out on a regular basis. You'll actually notice that more 'normal', non-######y people are out and about on big occassions and the crowd will be much, much different.

Seriously, go out to Yaletown, Granville or Gastown on a Friday / Saturday night around 11:30PM and you'll be shocked at the high percentage of these types out. I'm not even talking about only the clubs in these areas - go to a restaurant in Yaletown like Cactus and you'll see it completely filled with alpha males and trophy girls.

I was born and raised in Calgary, but I don't defend the city just because of that. Calgary to me is a small city like Vancouver, but Calgary has even less to do in terms of night life and partying than Vancouver which is pretty bad. The people in Calgary though in the same age range that go out seem to be more diverse than Vancouver for sure.

Toronto has a good party scene with huge diversity and plenty of options. Has its share of alpha male ###### bags as well (like any city), but the percentage is smaller than Vancouver by far and you don't see as much of the racial segregation in Toronto as you do in Vancouver when you're downtown.

12-19-2013, 02:26 PM	#206
HelloHockeyFans n00b! Join Date: Jul 2004 Exp:	I've lived in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver for more than 8 years in each city. I'm definitely not a fan of Vancouver. The "great weather" and "beautiful city" labels are completely overstated since the great weather is really only from June to September, so if 4 months of the year of fantastic weather is good enough, then fine, but you need to realize that the other 8 months is overcast skies with no sunshine and rain probably 80% of the time. Also, -5 in Vancouver feels colder than -5 in Calgary and Toronto... A LOT colder. As for the people of Vancouver, there's good and bad like anywhere. The 20 - 35 year old crowd that actually goes out to party (more on this later) seem to have a high percentage of ######s and idiots of the alpha male variety for sure from my observation. The theory that me and my friends have is that this has been believed / known for a long time now by locals and thus the 'normal' people in Vancouver don't really party regularly except on big occassions (New Years or Halloween) because they too despise the crowd. This leaves only people who belong in that crowd (mostly) going out on a regular basis. You'll actually notice that more 'normal', non-######y people are out and about on big occassions and the crowd will be much, much different. Seriously, go out to Yaletown, Granville or Gastown on a Friday / Saturday night around 11:30PM and you'll be shocked at the high percentage of these types out. I'm not even talking about only the clubs in these areas - go to a restaurant in Yaletown like Cactus and you'll see it completely filled with alpha males and trophy girls. I was born and raised in Calgary, but I don't defend the city just because of that. Calgary to me is a small city like Vancouver, but Calgary has even less to do in terms of night life and partying than Vancouver which is pretty bad. The people in Calgary though in the same age range that go out seem to be more diverse than Vancouver for sure. Toronto has a good party scene with huge diversity and plenty of options. Has its share of alpha male ###### bags as well (like any city), but the percentage is smaller than Vancouver by far and you don't see as much of the racial segregation in Toronto as you do in Vancouver when you're downtown.