Milan Lucic gets into altercation outside Vancouver club

[Soliak]

Originally Posted by Muta

Drugs? Or industry with high drug usage?

Surprisingly neither! I'm in the Technology sector. Unless you count weed of course, but I know you meant coked up lawyers .

[Soliak]

Originally Posted by BACKCHECK!!!

Self-selection for d-baggery.

Decent people flee for their lives, but the population increases because even more d-bags are moving to Vancouver to replace them.

I don't really have an opinion one way or another, because I've never spent much time in Van, but the logic and clarity of many of these arguments is compelling.

Without sounding racist, Asians mate. Lots and lots of Asians.

[Tinordi]

How's this for an alternate theory as to why Vancouver is such a bad city: A bunch of tribalist fans will go out their way to disrepute and justify reasons to hate a city of their great rival tribe?

[Tinordi]

Without sounding racist, Asians mate. Lots and lots of Asians.

[Soliak]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

How's this for an alternate theory as to why Vancouver is such a bad city: A bunch of tribalist fans will go out their way to disrepute and justify reasons to hate a city of their great rival tribe?

As an Australian I think I am completely void of any preconceptions. The place still sucks.

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN

I like Vancouver.

get out of here, we're officially gonna make this the "Vancouver is No Good" thread...

look at what that city did. it took what I assume was a perfectly nice Australian guy and made him someone who brags about his fake salary on a forum and uses words like "jelly". that alone is good enough reason to just get it over with and carpet bomb the place.

[Tinordi]

Vancouver is beautiful on the surface. But it is like a super hot chick you start dating, then you find out she has daddy issues, a raging case of herpes, and you realize when you get her naked her boobs were actually just all water bra disguising a set of floppy pancakes with saucer sized areola.

Just remember this: Vancouver is a lot like a hot young girl—she looks good, smells good, and is firm and soft in all the right places, but is ultimately a naively cocky mess of contradictions that can’t hold her liquor. Have fun!

http://www.vice.com/read/vancouver-t...e-to-vancouver

Give credit where it's due.

[Soliak]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

get out of here, we're officially gonna make this the "Vancouver is No Good" thread...

look at what that city did. it took what I assume was a perfectly nice Australian guy and made him someone who brags about his fake salary on a forum and uses words like "jelly". that alone is good enough reason to just get it over with and carpet bomb the place.

You seem jelly mate. Why be jelly?

[BACKCHECK!!!]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

How's this for an alternate theory as to why Vancouver is such a bad city: A bunch of tribalist fans will go out their way to disrepute and justify reasons to hate a city of their great rival tribe?

This theory would be more compelling if it made reference to a horde of dip****s with goatees taking selfies in ridiculous poses after they just finished beating the **** out of a guy and burning his car.

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by Soliak

You seem jelly mate. Why be jelly?

nah not jelly. but if we met you'd be mirin'.

[Soliak]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

nah not jelly. but if we met you'd be mirin'.

I giggled. I think we would be friends, Jack.

I'm going to delete the salary posts to stop any further accusations. In the end this is a forum full of people I will never meet and there is nothing to prove. If anything I would like people to know me as the Australian guy who started watching the Flames 11 years ago, by chance, and got hooked on hockey.

EDIT: TIL you can't delete old posts. They have also been quoted =\. Will have to live with it.

[Tinordi]

Most of the complaining just strikes me as people being uncomfortable living in a bigger city, not Vancouver specifically. One of the best parts of Calgary is that it still has a somewhat smaller town feel. But to pin the lack of community or the more grind stone like atmosphere as uniquely Vancouver is pretty narrowly focused. Toronto feels the same way, likely worse, and bigger cities like New York are a literal meat grinder.

Strikes me that most people from Calgary who complain about how awful Vancouver is come to Vancouver for their first experience living outside of Calgary and in a bigger cosmopolitan city. They then mistake that transition as it being about Vancouver itself not about that fundamental change.

Sure maybe a generalization but I know reams of people that have moved to Vancouver from bigger cities in Europe and the States and they love the community feel and the personality.

[Soliak]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

Most of the complaining just strikes me as people being uncomfortable living in a bigger city, not Vancouver specifically. One of the best parts of Calgary is that it still has a somewhat smaller town feel. But to pin the lack of community or the more grind stone like atmosphere as uniquely Vancouver is pretty narrowly focused. Toronto feels the same way, likely worse, and bigger cities like New York are a literal meat grinder.

Strikes me that most people from Calgary who complain about how awful Vancouver is come to Vancouver for their first experience living outside of Calgary and in a bigger cosmopolitan city. They then mistake that transition as it being about Vancouver itself not about that fundamental change.

Sure maybe a generalization but I know reams of people that have moved to Vancouver from bigger cities in Europe and the States and they love the community feel and the personality.

All depends on personal experiences, eh? No one can categorically say a city is this or that, it's all perception based.

In my experience I have felt non of the 'community feel' or 'personality'. I do live smack bang downtown in an apartment though, so that may contribute to the transactional relationships I have had with people. I have met a few friends here and non of them were born/raised in Vancouver, just moved here for work. I noticed that Kelowna is a hotspot for good folks though, as a number of my friends are from that area.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

http://www.vice.com/read/vancouver-t...e-to-vancouver

Give credit where it's due.

Thanks I enjoyed that. I feel a bit bad for Vancouver residents. It seems like their sole purpose in life is to convince everyone not from Vancouver that it's the greatest place in the world. This article basically sums up why people from Vancouver are generally loathed by the rest of the country;

http://hushmagazine.ca/social-commen.../#.UrNHwp3n-Uk

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Nm

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN

Nm

It's okay. We know it's nothing personal. You have Vancouver Complex. We understand.

[Young-Sneezy]

Can we change this thread to "Why do you hate Vancouver"? It's quite misleading

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Young-Sneezy

Can we change this thread to "Why do you hate Vancouver"? It's quite misleading

I don't hate it. In fact I'm indifferent as although overrated as a place to live it's still a nice place to visit. It's the residents with Vancouver Complex that people hate.

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

I would never move back to Calgary from Vancouver.

Ok.

[d_phaneuf]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Thanks I enjoyed that. I feel a bit bad for Vancouver residents. It seems like their sole purpose in life is to convince everyone not from Vancouver that it's the greatest place in the world. This article basically sums up why people from Vancouver are generally loathed by the rest of the country;

http://hushmagazine.ca/social-commen.../#.UrNHwp3n-Uk

I don't think it's that at all, no one in this thread from vancouver (or the 'non-d bag good people who have thankfully got out') has said it's the greatest place in the world

but what this thread mostly has is people who don't live in Vancouver talking about how bad it is