Living in a condo

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

Of course, you could also make a homebrew AC

Or, my trick when I used to live in aprtments where I didn't pay for water: fill the bathtub with cold water. Especially in Calgary where our cold water never gets above 10 degrees. You have a couple hundred litres of cold water absorbing the heat from the apartment.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by burnin_vernon

Winsor, I was thinking of heading anywhere from Burnaby to West Van. I am transferring job locations and there are a lot of offices around so I'm hoping this gives me more options. I am budgeting for about 200k (+condo fees, etc) so as much as I'd like to live in Kits, I doubt that it would be in my range. Any location advice you have would be awesome, though, as I am coming from a small Valley town and don't kow Van very well.

I'm new to Van too so I don't know it too well either. The areas we looked in (Kits, Fairview, DT, Yaletown) will all likely be 300+ to start.
I do find location to be very important in Van though. It's not a cookie cutter city like Calgary or many others, and different areas really offer different lifestyles.
So depending on what type of lifestyle you want, choose carefully. There's a lot of trendy areas with great restaurants, shopping etc. if that's your sort of thing and there's more quiet residential type areas if that's yours. Also, If you plan on using public transport I'd consider that too. And lastly there's great places for beaches, forests, bike trails and stuff like that if you're wanting to live near those.

[burnin_vernon]

How small a place can one person live in without going crazy? There are so many 500 sq foot ones ins perfect locations, but i think that would probably be too small