>>2851799
>Is it worth it to visit Vancouver BC as a tourist?
Not really.
>What about life in Vancouver BC - is it a good place to live?
It’s alright, really expensive though. Has its ups and downs like any other place.

>>2851799
Best city in Canada but expensive as fuck and the salaries suck.

You cannot afford to live there.

>>2851841
Well, there are people who afford to live there, and I think I could become one of them if it was truly worth it. Is it a world class city?

>>2851799
living in ontario rn, im going to visit BC soon but it seems like they're 10 years behind Ontario and Quebec unfortunately, you can't even order booze online.

It's for if you're into westernized Asian chicks instead of the "me sucky sucky rong time mistah. Prease give green card" from SEA

>>2851841
You probably can but it won't give you a high quality of life.

>>2851847
>seems like they're 10 years behind Ontario
>LCBO

>>2851799
Best place in Canada by a mile if you're rich.

i live here, vancouver is a great place. lots of cool things to see from stanley park, science world, english bay, gas town, granville island, capilano suspension bridges, countless hikes, great camping, really good snow for boarding/skii, pretty good restaurant scene as well.

living here is nice, but its expensive with some of the most expensive housing costs in north america, and it rains a lot. but if you do have money its an amazing place

>>2852192
I used to live in seattle, would you say vancouver is cooler than seattle?

>>2852242
subtract blacks and guns and crime
add chinese and indians who will work for nothing
divide wages by 2
multiply housing prices by 2

>>2852242
i think vancouver is cool, but i definitely hear and see a lot of people think it can be "pretentious" "cold"(people) and its obviously not as "cool" as Toronto/New York

i think seattle is probably a little cooler, but thats based on the general idea that canada is a bit boring and tame compared to america

>>2852320
>>2852323
just to be clear I really hated seattle. found it to be a generic suburban shithole like the rest of the USA aside from like three cities (NYC, SF, maybe washington dc)

I'm from Vancouver I live in USA now. Not worth visiting unless you are a shitskin then your family will be there in Vancouver.

>>2852340
The chinks run Vancouver. Not the shit skins.

>>2852242
>I used to live in seattle, would you say vancouver is cooler than seattle?
I'd say that Vancouver is arguably more beautiful, and has better Chink food, but Seattle is cooler in every other possible way. The other thing I always found strange was the lack of good bars in Vancouver, especially compared to Seattle or Portland.

>>2852344
I found seattle to have almost no positive attributes as a city to be honest with you anon.

It just had the same suburban strip mall lifestyle as the rest of the USA aside from basically four or five cities (SF, NYC, maybe LA and Miami and Washington DC)

my life in Seattle consisted of driving places and eating at restaurants. my life in San Francisco consisted of hanging out with my friends and going to parties. I preferred SF immensely.

>>2852355
>It just had the same suburban strip mall lifestyle as the rest of the USA
>aside from LA Miami

>>2851847
>you can't be an anti-social alcoholic
oh no!!!

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>>2852355
>>2852366
these are the kind of people who give us travel advice

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>>2852368
Places are fine to visit. For living. Please consult the graph.

>>2852366
>>2852368
let me clarify, I agree with you guys those places are suburbia hell

BUT
BUT

THEY DO have a unique culture you can't find elsewhere in the usa, and they can actually be legitimately fun places to live!

I think they are much better places to live than seattle because of their culture, even though the actual urban planning is very similar

Idk about living there but as a tourist it's probably the best place to see in Canada apart from Quebec

>>2852378
Dude. Banff?

>>2852379
who tf cares about some mountains

>>2852380
a lot of people actually

>>2852369
Ah yes, living in a tiny apartment with no land at all is soooo good!! But hey at least they have busses and subways you can piles on with the rest of the bums and disgusting people.

>>2852572
>Ah yes, living in a tiny apartment with no land at all is soooo good
yes, it is good
because we need COMMUNITY to live, not land

>>2852572
There's way more bums in LA then NYC.

>>2852369
Durham NC has good city buses and multiple trains a day connecting it to the other major cities in NC, but the city buses are predominantly patronized by you-know-whos. Very few respectable people want to ride on a bus full of you-know-whos, apart from pretty young college students (who are invariably anti-racist liberals). Also, most Americans are lazy lardasses. In Europe, it's completely normal to walk 1 km from your house to the bus station. That's why most people are fit. In America, people drive even the shortest distances becaue the idea of walking a single kilometer is too arduous and a waste of time (that could be spent vegetating on the couch instead).

>>2852573
Lmao you are so fresh out of school it's not even funny.
>>2852584
Enjoy the subway!

>>2852598
Yeah that's why the US is suburban hell. People wait in their cars to get Starbucks, use the ATM etc. Nation of lardarses.
>>2852584
Thanks I will. Crime isn't nearly near as high as you think. Stop reading the NY Post.

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>>2852368
I'm not that anon, but if you're going to argue that Seattle is a fantastic and cultured place then I'd love to hear your arguments. I used to live in Seattle. I'm currently in equally soulless Bellevue with family. I've lived in King county my whole life and Seattle has always been awful. There's jack shit to do if you're a loner, and the anti social culture basically means you stay a loner because it's seen as too invasive to even say hello to a stranger.

>>2851848
>me sucky sucky rong time mistah. Prease give green card
lol the chinks in vancouver act exactly the same

Nothing is worth visiting in engl*sh canada.

>>2852377
so your argument is I feel special and like i'm on television in LA its just different you don't get it.

>>2854648
As opposed to fr*nch canada that is almost entirely flat and boring as fuck? The only remotely interesting parts in the north are inaccessible unless you go by heli for big $$$. Not to mention the cities are full of typical fr*nch people who do not want you to be there and are rude as fuck if you can't speak a lick of fr*nch

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>>2854655
>French Canada is almost entirely flat

Except the whole territory is literally covered in mountains?

>>2854655
lol the french people are getting replaced at record speed right now. It's hard to believe but it's actually happening

I live in Vancouver. Some days I hate it. But after traveling to 42 countries, and many of those "most livable" cities, I think it's one of the best places in the world even with all the negatives. We have the absolute best Summers of anywhere in the world. It's beautiful here, the access to nature is some of the best of any big cities, the food scene is genuinely fantastic.

Let me know if any of you have questions about Vancouver or the region.

>>2854699
How do you afford it

>>2854701
Honestly, all of Canada is expensive. All big cities in western countries are expensive. You just have to manage. Either get a high paying job or make some sacrifices. Lots of free or cheap activities in Vancouver in the warmer months, and I'm a bit of hermit in the winter.

>>2854709
Montreal has all the amenities of Vancouver (maybe smaller mountains, but way more of them), and it's 3x cheaper. I pay 800$ all included for a studio in a central neighborhood.

>>2854774
>more mountains
That's quite surprising. I thought BC was mountain land, and Montreal was in forest land near the lakes. Guessed it was a bit more warmer Siberia tier with swamps and shit.

Spent way too much of my life here, not really a choice too poor too leave. Anyways, Vancouver is really, really boring. There's nothing here at all. The weather is cold and dark for 8 months straight. The people are cold and asocial. There's no culture, no cultural events, nothing to do. If you want to see a concert you can aspire to see Lady Gaga or similar masonic filth when they come up from their Seattle tour. There are no jobs. There are no real opportunities. The people again, are cold and cliquey, so again have fun doing everything alone because having friends, dating or a social life is impossible. This isn't even accounting for the fact that the city is now 90% FOBS. All the Chinese went back to China too. Hongcouver is a thing of the past. There's no real reason to live here and I'm just waiting until my work terms are up so I can graduate, get my degree and finally leave this place. Feels like living in an airport and just wasting my life

>>2854774
Montreal is a much better city than Vancouver IMHO. Was going to move there for uni but convid cucked me. You can be in the core and on the banks of the St. Lawrence with nobody around in <15 mins. Honestly, Quebec is the only province worth living in in Canada anyway.

>>2854699
do you like vancouver BC more than NYC or SF?
What about mexico city?

>>2854774
Montreal as a city is definitely nicer, but BC is significantly better for travel and exploring than Ontario/Quebec. As I mentioned in my original post, we have amazing weather here from May to September, lots of time for exploring the region. I usually do 2 major road trips in the Summer in our area, either in BC one of the surrounding provinces or states, and one major trip outside of our region per year.

And overall, Canadian cities are not that impressive compared to other cities around the world. None of the other cities in Canada would improve my life over Vancouver. I wish we had some livelier cities because I absolutely love places like Bangkok or Taipei where something is happening 24/7/365. But in Canada, the only good thing about life here is our access to nature.

>>2855111
So, somehow I still haven't been to NY.

Compared to SF, I think both cities are very close. Our nature is better, but as a city I think SF has some more interesting places to spend time in. The climate there is also better because the climate anywhere in Canada sucks. Food in Cali is amazing honestly, I wish we had more variety here in Vancouver because we have some of the best Asian food but everything else is mid. If I worked in IT I'd have pushed for a job in SF.

Mexico City is one of those never sleep places I mentioned above. I've been a couple times now and I love it. I wish I had an opportunity to live there for some time but it's not going to happen. MX beats Vancouver in cultural events hands down. It's much more fun as well, there's a larger variety of places to spend time there because of it's size. But overall, for living, MX is way too big of a city to beat out Vancouver on any livability ranking. Vancouver is definitely a better place to live long term.

>>2851799
Wow, this picture is shockingly low quality for 3.45MB. Not sure how the hell my compression algo did this.

>>2853994
That's pretty much Vancouver but Vancouver's even worse than Seattle. It's literally just wasting your life. If you didn't make your fake friends in high school your life is over. I've suffered so much from poor mental health due to the shitty people and awful weather, had depression entire time I've been here and am now way behind on life playing catch up. I think you have to actually have autism or some sort of personality disorder to live in the PNW. Like actually something really wrong with you. It's not even about social life either, translates into getting jobs. I remember even applying for min wage jobs, they refuse to hire you because you aren't their fake pretend friends so you can't move ahead in life or afford to escape. I have not been able to make a single friend the entire time I've been in BC outside of fake friends through work who pretend they don't even know you the moment you no longer work there. Wretched place can only be fixed with a magnitude 10 earthquake.

I live here, and have all my life
its a nice city, great stuff to do outdoors, some decent but not mindblowing attractions/tourist stuff, very good food scene, especially if you like chinese/asian or fancy fine diney stuff
i think as a tourist i'd get pretty bored of it within about 5 days, and the big caveat is the absolute tumor that is the downtown east side
>>2852344
>lack of good bars in Vancouver, especially compared to Seattle or Portland.
city more or less refuses to issue new liquor primary licenses, which hamstrings new bars opening, and the insane rent spikes keep wiping out good older spots

>>2855198
Oh yes Vancouver is such a great city for the outdoors, with the 9 months of 2 degree rain. You can really do a hike when the sun is up at 9 and down by 3. Maybe in the 12 degrees in june, or the two weeks before the forest fires make the air unbreathable by august or september. And as always have fun doing these things alone because Vancouverites are asocial knobs.

As far as the "food" scene goes in Vancouver. Well, the people here seem to eat the food black people twitter says white people eat. Unseasoned bland slop. Half the restaurants are selling burgers, sandwiches and bagels lol. The only restaurants are the chink restaurants in richmond which are drastically more expensive than they are in China for the same thing. Oh yeah I want some toast for $50 dollars + 20% tip. This city makes way more sense when you look at its history and realize it was some backwater logging town filled with white trash that got pumped and dumped by chinks and flooded with infinity turdies. Practically built by China, but they all left the city since covid.

Idk, I hike for over 6 months out of the year here. Even more if I only stick to lower elevation hikes, which can be done in the rain. Just need to get an arcteryx jacket.

Mountain hiking is pretty good from April to September, depending on the hike and the snow pack each year.

Food variety is also pretty good I'd say. Maybe not every country is represented but we have some of the best East Asian food in North America here. And we also have access to some of the best ingredients on the continent in wild salmon and other fresh seafood. I buy whole salmon from natives for $15 for an entire fish. My whole freezer is packed.

English canada fucking sucks.

>>2855156
I was expecting a bunch of copeposts to reply to me, but it seems for us locals there is no denying this reality. I'm convinced the curse of native American spirits linger over us fucking everything up

>>2851799

It's a good city to live in if you have money or make a very good living.

It's hell on earth if you live paycheck to paycheck.

Expect the following:

- Skeezy westernized asian chicks who act like divas because their parents made millions with slave factories back in China during the economic boom and came to Canada to launder it through real estate. You'll notice they either don't work or they work some ''job'' part time to keep themselves entertained as they've spent the essential of their child hood living like queens with no obligations.

- The dating scene is shit, you either have the asian girls above or far-left liberal chicks that begged for more lockdowns and dystopian laws during covid. ''Normal'' women are either married by 25 or have left the city for the most part.

- Cold and depressed locals slaving away to pay their rent. Many of them still vote for the same left-wing politicians that enabled the mess they are living in. Because of this making friends is difficult unless you act and behave like an NPC, which is the only way you won't pass off as a weirdo in their eyes.

- It has rainy weather.

- If you like nature then you'll like living there, around the city you will have a lot to do.

- Good food scene. Cuisines from all over asia are easy to find.

- If you live in a nice area you'll offset a lot of the negative points of living in Vancouver.

- Lots of crackheads in the city center.

- If you like boating/fishing then it's a good place obviously.

If you come to grind and have a good source of income you will like the city. Just accept the cons of living there and you should be fine.

>>2851799
i'm from vancouver
it's the worst city i've ever been to
i've never been assaulted or mugged anywhere else in the world
the people there are fucking nazis
half are fentanyl zombies and the other half are QAnon psychos
it's an overpriced backwoods neonazi shithole
you're better off going to florida

>>2852242
seattle is better than vancouver in every possible way

>>2851799
It's a city overflowing with 3rd world immigrants. It's glory days ended 40 years ago.

>>2856017
looks there just a gonna be a fundamental difference in opinion on vancouver in an online thread. Everyone who hasn't been thinks it looks nice and is objectively good for outdoor activities. However anyone who has even been on foot anywhere across vancouver will have a wildly different opinion its literally like a zombie movie

>>2852242
Vancouver is a more beautiful place and destroys Seattle if you're outdoorsy however Seattle is a much better place to live. I absolutely hate Vancouver after living there for 30 years. My grandma lives in Seattle and my mom is from there so i should know.

If you're a rich Asian kid with autistic traits and NPC mannerisms you'll do well

>>2854657
Wait, you mean the upper half that has basically no roads, no access, and you have to fly in followed by days of snowmobile or hiking if you actually want to visit? Wow! Epic dude!!! Not to mention parts of it around Torngat where you have to pay thousands of dollars just to even get a helicopter ride to by any of the research groups that have stuff setup there for tourists! Epic! Totally better than all of BC!

>>2852369
Living in Toronto it felt like everyone used public transit, it feels extremely underused in comparison now that I'm in DC.

>>2852572
I like being able to walk for 5 minutes to the grocery store instead of drive for 30, why does this make people like you so upset?

>>2856405
Yeah that's because no one can afford a car in Cucknada, not because the shitty US copycat cities are walkable. Count your blessings you live in a much more affordable country with much better economic opportunities.

>>2852572
Not to mention there's 0 community in urban areas. Rural areas people are way friendlier so you end up socializing more. Post social media there's 0 reason to live in a city.

>>2856410
It isn't just that. Toronto's subway and (especially) bus service felt way more reliable than DC's, even though the former is actually less extensive by track length. I actually like Canada and do plan to move back in the future, although I know my wallet will take a hit.

>>2856405
Doesn't mean it's bad. The TTC was pretty good though. Better than nearly all US cities.

>>2855868
>- Skeezy westernized asian chicks who act like divas because their parents made millions with slave factories back in China during the economic boom and came to Canada to launder it through real estate. You'll notice they either don't work or they work some ''job'' part time to keep themselves entertained as they've spent the essential of their child hood living like queens with no obligations.
>- The dating scene is shit, you either have the asian girls above or far-left liberal chicks that begged for more lockdowns and dystopian laws during covid. ''Normal'' women are either married by 25 or have left the city for the most part.
>- Cold and depressed locals slaving away to pay their rent. Many of them still vote for the same left-wing politicians that enabled the mess they are living in. Because of this making friends is difficult unless you act and behave like an NPC, which is the only way you won't pass off as a weirdo in their eyes.

these are really accurate. I can't live somewhere with so many delusional NDP voters, it's physically painful to watch these morons complain about their housing situation and then KEEP VOTING for the same stupid multi-millionaire fucks that caused the problem to begin with! even the chief of police is a chang now you can't even find canadians in that city everyone is a chang or the child of a rich chang.

Also the traffic situation is getting worse and worse because they're slowly realizing rich changs don't want to take public transit so all the rich immigrants they've welcomed just jam up the roads and infrastructure

>>2855107
Hundred percent agree. Vancouver and Victoria both were great when I lived there but that was like 20 years ago. If I was going to move to Canada again at this point I'd only consider Montreal or maybe Quebec City

>>2852242
No. Vancouver feels like an actual city, Seattle feels like an ocean of suburbs surrounding a small cluster of office buildings.

>>2858268
BS. I'm having to go downtown to that soulless peninsula in OP's pic for work and let me tell you the downtown has no soul at all. Dead place, and no vibe despite people being around. Doesn't even feel like a city, more like you're in the countryside. Worst of all there isn't anywhere to get basic food during lunch breaks, like the best option is going to Costco or T&T in Chinatown. The city isn't build for living in on a basic level.

>>2851799
My boss asked me this the other day. I've lived in Oregon and Washington and visited Vancouver once. Vancouver's a nice city in a lot of ways, but I don't think there's a particular reason to visit it over the American side of the PNW. Oregon and Washington both have lovely nature, great food, and are cheaper. And they're larger in practice, unless you go way up into the northern Cascades, but then of course it's colder. I suppose Vancouver is a cleaner city than Portland or Seattle, but I'm tired of being in cities.

To live in? Where are you currently a citizen? If you're American, go to Portland or Seattle where you'll have better access to real estate and more job opportunities.

>>2858275
>it's not like my home village at all
>where are the street """food""" stalls selling rotten goat meat?
>why are the people so quiet?
>it's freaking soulless....
Thanks for sharing rajneesh

>>2851841
People in Canada have a nickname for BC, it's called "bring cash". If you are not wealthy or have an extremely high paying job lined up before going then good luck.

>>2858487
This entire site is so infested with liberals it's not even funny. Yeah okay, have fun in your soulless copy-paste condos built by CHINA. Not white people. CHINA. The highlight of Canada in the minds of Canadians is CHINESE money laundering. And yes I hate being in a soulless unfriendly shithole, where the locals eat pastrami sandwiches for $50 and think they're better than you because they pay $3000/m to live in a shoebox. Nothing better than being in constant rain and darkness surrounded by junkies. It's a shithole for low IQ retards.

>>2858504
Wait, I thought it was like the countryside. Now it's too much of an urban bughive? Make up your mind, schizo.

>>2858506
Yes. Ugly soulless china copy-paste money laundering hive, not built for human inhabitation. Unfriendly locals, no culture, awful food, no economy, too expensive to live. Effectively a backwater logging shithole whose highlight of existence were Chinese pump and dumping the place. Only famous in Canada because Canada as a whole is a backwater shithole whose highlight of existence was getting Asian immigrants.

Living and working in BC as a white man felt like a curse.
>work your ass off and barely save money
>give 40% of your income to your jeet or chink landlord
>get only 2 weeks of vacation per year to enjoy the nature
>drive a 20 year old shitbox while nons speed past you in new luxury sedans and teslas
>your office full of immigrants at your salary level who drive home to $1.5m detached homes while you drive home to a 400 sq ft studio with $300/month parking
>be financially mogged by immigrants who fly home oversees 1-2 times per year
>wonder how you only have 10k after 5 years of work and no travel
>think you can escape the HCOL of cities by moving to a small town in the middle of nowhere
>nope homes start at 800k
>foreigners resent whites despite being richer because whites are happier owning nothing and enjoying the nature
>feminist man hating capital of north america to top it all off
>majority of young women are bi and eating each others pussies, don't want children and practice witchcraft
>every couple is DINK or severely burnt out with one child because wives are forced to work full time
>forced to put jeets in your basement to help pay your mortgage even if you can afford a down payment
>only place in canada that truly feels like the middle class is gone
>watch the small group of legacy whites throw it all away, burning through generational wealth doing drugs in expensive airbnbs in the woods, having group sex and refusing to have kids because nothing here makes sense so fuck it