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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Vancouver is the only place I know where if you don't live in the center of town it doesn't count as living in Vancouver.
If you move to London or New York do you expect to live in Manhatten or Kensington or Westminster with a view of the Houses of Parliment?
New Westminster and Surrey are all still part of Vancouver, as is Langley. It would help if there were a decent train service that ran up the valley all day and night granted but I doubt there's a more beautiful suburb in Canada than Maple Ridge or Mission and yet people here seem to think it's some kind of purgatory being inflicted on them that they have to live in a place that would be considered paradise by most in the world.
I really don't get it, I bought my first houses out in the valley, that paid for the down payment on my place in East Van, it's not the end of the world to bring your kids up in Poco then move into Vancouver later on if you want.
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It's an issue that from the outside, it's considered "Vancouver" but from the inside it's not. It's like that in any city though. If you had someone from NYC talk about various metro areas, they would not consider them NYC. Meanwhile us outsideers would.
Vancouver is also unique among those cities in that the cost of housing in places that are an 1.5 hours out is still astronomical. This is true regardless of how nice the properties or neighbourhoods are. Even in NYC you can find houses in bad subburb areas that are cheap. Not so much in Vancouver. Even a house in a run down area of Langley will cost an arm a leg. Houses in PoCo are starting at (or at least they were a couple of months ago) at over a million now.
Factor in salaries and Vancouver is even more unique.