Not Vancouver Bashing

[blankall]

Originally Posted by sun

Anyone who lived in residence at U of C (and uofa presumably) knows how annoying all the BC kids were. Non-stop bitching about Calgary and constantly talking about how Vancouver and Kelowna are sooooo much better. Couldn't keep their traps shut about it.

There is nothing Vancouverites love more than Vancouver.

This I'll agree on. The worst part about Vancouver is the attitude, and the sluggish attitude towards addressing major inssues in Vancouver: housing prices, homeless, poor social scenes, etc..

The only critique I ever hear about is housing/rent prices, and even then that is blamed 100% on external forces. Even though I know at least a half a dozen friends who's parents have flipped at least one property.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Burninator

The last conversation I had with someone who lived in Vancouver was about the weather and how much they hated it. He said he would rather have the dry cold (with colder temps.) than the damp cold that Van has. He sounded crazy to me, but I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.

-4 in Van with 90-100% humidity is fine...until you get cold. That #### doesn't leave your bones for hours. It's absolutely brutal.

That said, it's hilarious how slow everyone drives when there's 2cm of snow on the ground.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

That said, it's hilarious how slow everyone drives when there's 2cm of snow on the ground.

It's hilarious; until you realize that they're eating up the time in your life while they act like a moron.

Unless you mean that it is hilarious from over here. Then yes.

[Bertuzzied]

Great place to visit but i would never want to live there.

I've had 6 sets of friends who moved out there after school, and they all moved back to Calgary as soon as they had kids or were thinking of having kids.

Also would it effing kill someone to have left hand turning lanes in Wancouver?

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by chemgear

It's hilarious; until you realize that they're eating up the time in your life while they act like a moron.

Unless you mean that it is hilarious from over here. Then yes.

Yeah, I've only been to Van as a tourist (one time during December of all months), and I found it pretty funny.

Ditto for all the gawking stares I got from people when it was 0 and I was walking around in a light jacket, while everyone else had huge boots, gloves, earmuffs and scarves.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

-4 in Van with 90-100% humidity is fine...until you get cold. That #### doesn't leave your bones for hours. It's absolutely brutal.

That said, it's hilarious how slow everyone drives when there's 2cm of snow on the ground.

No whats really hilarious is that most of those dumb buggers are originally from the praries and are in absoloute denial that it ever snows in Vancouver

[AR_Six]

Originally Posted by seattleflamer

Vancouver's version of COP....

Ugh, Grouse. "Unless you're Japanese or ####ting cash, we don't care about you". Worst hill on the North Shore. Easily.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by darklord700

Still as a working man with a family to raise, I wouldn't choose Vancouver over Calgary. But in 20 years, maybe I can overlook the grey overcast sky and move there.

I think that's the big kicker and where the difference in this thread lies.

The people trumpeting Vancouver are less concerned about raising a family and advancing their careers or are people with professional backgrounds who can probably afford their desired lifestlye in any city. CA's and lawyers can probably make it happen in Calgary or Vancouver but the average guy probably does better in Calgary.

If you want a home that you can afford, combined with a career that can afford you that home and fund your retirement there's no doubt Calgary offers that to more people than the Vancouver area can.

Point blank you're going to be trading off affordability for the west coast weather and lifestyle. For some people that's simply the price to pay for that beauty. For other's their happiness is derived more on being able to afford the lifestlye they want and couldn't care less about what the weather's doing outside or conversely are hardy enough to not care enough about weather to let it dictate where you live.

[seattleflamer]

Originally Posted by AR_Six

Ugh, Grouse. "Unless you're Japanese or ####ting cash, we don't care about you". Worst hill on the North Shore. Easily.

"Worst hill" is still better than COP is my point.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by seattleflamer

"Worst hill" is still better than COP is my point.

Wait there are people who try and actually do more than learn to ski/snowboard at COP, or use the board park?

Weird.

[Pacem]

I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin...

How isn't this a Vancouver bashing thread, lol.

I've spent my entire life in the lower mainland. The area suits me perfectly. Whenever i've been anywhere to visit, I find I miss the mountains and greenery pretty quickly. I couldn't imagine living in an area for any length of time that did not have mountains, water and trees like I am used to. This area is definitely not for everyone. I've seen first hand how the grey skies and lack of sunlight can make a person depressed.

[darklord700]

Funny that I just read this report:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/busines...358/story.html

"Most in Metro Vancouver would choose big house, big lot in the suburbs over luxury apartment: survey"

Funny in a sense that I was just thinking that it would nice to live in a condo not having to do all the chores. The grass is always greener on the other side.

[DuffMan]

Can we set the 2 lawyers up for a no dq cage match?

[shane_c]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Also, bridge jumping on the Myra River. Been there? It's the one wherre the bridge is literally right over where the river meets the Ocean. It's the coolest thing, you stand one one side of the bridge and stare out at a 20 ft span river, with little cottages on either side, then you turn around and stare right into the powerful Atlantic ocean. One of my favorite places I've ever been

EDIT: Found a crappy small pic that doesn't do it justice. Haha, it's also funny what being a kid does to bridges like that. I jumped off it once and I felt like I was 80 feet in the air, and I always thought it was a monstrous bridge when we'd arrive. Now it looks like nothing, lol.


EDIT: Although, that pic did remind me of how scary that current is, where the river is pushing into the ocean as the strong ocean current pushes back. You can't tell too well from that pic, but it's basically right where you see the "ripples" just past the bridge, but they ain't no ripples when you get out there.

Mira River. I grew up not far up river from the Mira Gut. It might be scenic and historic out here on the east coast but our weather ROTS.

It's always windy, seem to have a storm every other day, lots of rain, lots of snow (but it can't be normal snow it has to switch back and forth to rain a bunch of times so that it's back breaking), lots of fog and gray days, humid in the summer to the point where you work up a sweat just breathing..... It just sucks.

Avg precipitation:

Halifax - 230 cm snow - 1452 mm avg precip - 171 wet days
Vancouver - 48 cm snow - 1200 mm avg precip - 166 wet days
Calgary - 127 cm snow - 412 mm avg precip - 113 wet days

[Addick]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I think that's the big kicker and where the difference in this thread lies.

The people trumpeting Vancouver are less concerned about raising a family and advancing their careers or are people with professional backgrounds who can probably afford their desired lifestlye in any city. CA's and lawyers can probably make it happen in Calgary or Vancouver but the average guy probably does better in Calgary.

If you want a home that you can afford, combined with a career that can afford you that home and fund your retirement there's no doubt Calgary offers that to more people than the Vancouver area can.

Point blank you're going to be trading off affordability for the west coast weather and lifestyle. For some people that's simply the price to pay for that beauty. For other's their happiness is derived more on being able to afford the lifestlye they want and couldn't care less about what the weather's doing outside or conversely are hardy enough to not care enough about weather to let it dictate where you live.

Some people, though, are interested in raising a family in a different environment. That lifestyle and that house might not be BBQs in the large backyard of a detached house. In that case, only being able to afford a condo in a low/mid/high-rise might be acceptable as they don't equate more space with additional value.

[Jake]

I have lived in Vancouver for a few years now, after living in Calgary for most of my life. There a ups and downs to both. I personally don't see one as better than the other. While I love Vancouver, I pay a premium to live here. Rent, gas, insurance... it seems like everything is 50-100% more expensive than in Calgary. I am honestly undecided as to whether it is worth it or not.

[Vulcan]

Well when you reach that age and you're sick of the big city around here is a fine place to live. Currently this line of cars must be the rush of cars off the ferry.

Strange day, cloudy but bright.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Great place to visit but i would never want to live there.

I've had 6 sets of friends who moved out there after school, and they all moved back to Calgary as soon as they had kids or were thinking of having kids.

Also would it effing kill someone to have left hand turning lanes in Wancouver?

i was driven to near rage driving through downtown because of this, almost ####ing impossible to make a left anywhere in that city

[T@T]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Also, bridge jumping on the Myra River. Been there? It's the one wherre the bridge is literally right over where the river meets the Ocean. It's the coolest thing, you stand one one side of the bridge and stare out at a 20 ft span river, with little cottages on either side, then you turn around and stare right into the powerful Atlantic ocean. One of my favorite places I've ever been

EDIT: Found a crappy small pic that doesn't do it justice. Haha, it's also funny what being a kid does to bridges like that. I jumped off it once and I felt like I was 80 feet in the air, and I always thought it was a monstrous bridge when we'd arrive. Now it looks like nothing, lol.


EDIT: Although, that pic did remind me of how scary that current is, where the river is pushing into the ocean as the strong ocean current pushes back. You can't tell too well from that pic, but it's basically right where you see the "ripples" just past the bridge, but they ain't no ripples when you get out there.

Just stop! your bringing tears to my eyes from memory overload, I hung out there as a teenager and did that jump a hundred times, did the Georges River death jump as well many times, I lost my "cherry" at the Myra Gut when I was 14 She was 17..Gotta love Cape Breton babes lol.

[darklord700]

Originally Posted by T@T

I lost my "cherry" at the Myra Gut when I was 14 She was 17..Gotta love Cape Breton babes lol.

Was 14 legal? I wish I could have done more illegal stuff at 14 like you did.