vancouver getting worse?

jizzme

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I dont know if I'm the only one who thinks this, but its pretty apparent to me (since i dont live here) that vancouver, as a city, has gotten a lot worse in the past year. e.g. cost of living much higher than i remember, more rude people, more kids on weed, more bums on the streets, the population as a whole looks decrepit, more idiot drivers, more entitled hipsters/yuppies, and lots of gentrification...
 

manni

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I dont know if I'm the only one who thinks this, but its pretty apparent to me (since i dont live here) that vancouver, as a city, has gotten a lot worse in the past year. e.g. cost of living much higher than i remember, more rude people, more kids on weed, more bums on the streets, the population as a whole looks decrepit, more idiot drivers, more entitled hipsters/yuppies, and lots of gentrification...
you're spot on with the observation.
take the mountains and water out of the equation and Vancouver looks like
the people that inhabits it. do people even shower or wash their clothes anymore?

decrepit is a good word to describe the look. I'd throw in haggard and weathered in there also.
 

vanperb

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I dont know if I'm the only one who thinks this, but its pretty apparent to me (since i dont live here) that vancouver, as a city, has gotten a lot worse in the past year. e.g. cost of living much higher than i remember, more rude people, more kids on weed, more bums on the streets, the population as a whole looks decrepit, more idiot drivers, more entitled hipsters/yuppies, and lots of gentrification...
Question : Can a city get better while growing? I have yet to hear anyone say good things about a growing city. It's always, more noise, more pollution, shutting down small business, higher costs, ruder people, etc.
 

MissingOne

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Question : Can a city get better while growing? I have yet to hear anyone say good things about a growing city...
Shrinking cities aren't that great either. Detroit, for example.

As one who grew up in the Lower Mainland, but now only visits once a month or so, I would say that the traffic has gotten worse, and the city is more crowded. As for jizzme's other complaints, well, the city had its ugly side back in the fifties and sixties too. Very ugly, actually. I wouldn't want to return to the city of those days.
 

vanperb

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Shrinking cities aren't that great either. Detroit, for example.

As one who grew up in the Lower Mainland, but now only visits once a month or so, I would say that the traffic has gotten worse, and the city is more crowded. As for jizzme's other complaints, well, the city had its ugly side back in the fifties and sixties too. Very ugly, actually. I wouldn't want to return to the city of those days.
Amen to that.
 

SkinnyJohn

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It will be interesting to see how the future generation will be able to afford all those 600K+ condos along with the monthly strata and property tax making 60K a year. Fun times!
 

MissingOne

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It will be interesting to see how the future generation will be able to afford all those 600K+ condos...
Can you find a liveable condo for 600K?
 

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I'll stick to the place I now inhabit.....all I have to worry about is hitting a deer, or if property goes up a thousand an acre.
Oh.....and if I need to put up another building I suppose I'd have to find a good stand of logs.
 

take8easy

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Being an occasional optimist, I say as long as we can find decent girls under 250/hr, we are doing alright. Screw the traffic, just leave 15 minutes early.

Besides what are my options?

I hate Toronto. (Maple Leafs)
I don’t wanna move to USA. (I can give you top ten list on that alone)
I don’t want to live in a small town. (Not enough hookers)
Saudi Arab: (I don’t want to have my nuts sliced and fed to camels just because I asked a hooker for let me DATO)
North Korea: Their leader has a bad hair do.
Mexico: The ever-looming threat of a wall.

Just grin and bear it my friends and just be thankful that you can still get it at 160/hr.
 

Aerts

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I'm from the prairies. Lots of people I went to high school with (who are now in their mid to late 30's) moved to vancouver. They all seem to work in the service industry, smoke dope and party. Some went to BCIT for something and are trying to launch a day job. They definitely aren't launching any type of serious career, getting married and having kids, making any kind of money, buying property, driving nice vehicles, or fucking hookers. They are basically content to live like serfs as long as they get to party and feel special for moving away from Saskatchewan.
 

MissingOne

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I don’t wanna move to USA. (I can give you top ten list on that alone)
Mexico: The ever-looming threat of a wall.
Since you don't want to move to the USA, what's your objection to the wall?
 

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i agree with all the OP has said. Vancouver is a horrible place to live now. Aside from weather and scenery it's a shithole. most self centered, self absorbed people in the country live here. people always say how canadians are nicer then americans, well take vancouverites out of the equation. i visit the states often and americans are much nicer. simple example. when i get to the front of the check out line at the fred meyer in bellingham, i am usually greeted with a nice, "how is your day going?", or a "did you find everything you were looking for?" friendly customer service. go through the line at walmart or superstore in canada and the cashier hardly makes eye contact and only mutters words asking if you want bags, so they can charge you that 5 cents. now is that a correlation with the fact that 95% of the cashiers are english second language? perhaps but even bringing that up will get all the politically correct hardcores in an uproar. god help us if we criticize canada's immigration policy which is partially to blame for the overall mess this city is in.
 

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Saddest thing is the loss of the culturally unique neighbourhoods. Typical example is Robsonstrasse has turned into a shopping mall for rich arseholes.

No more Chinese grocery stores with really good fresh fruit and vegetables. Just bullshit yuppie stores like Whole Foods.

No more fresh produce because the entire Fraser Valley is all strip malls and little pink houses.

And Vancouver yuppie hypocrites pretend to be concerned about the environment while buying organic apples from New Zealand ( what a carbon footprint!) and organic chicken grown in BC, slaughtered in BC, then frozen, shipped to China for processing and shipped back to BC for retail sale.

The only thing more pathetic than Vancouver are the pretentious twats living there.
 
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Saddest thing is the loss of the culturally unique neighbourhoods. Typical example is Robsonstrasse has turned into a shopping mall for rich arseholes.

No more Chinese grocery stores with really good fresh fruit and vegetables. Just bullshit yuppie stores like Whole Foods.

No more fresh produce because the entire Fraser Valley is all strip malls and little pink houses.

And Vancouver yuppie hypocrites pretend to be concerned about the environment while buying organic apples from New Zealand ( what a carbon footprint!) and organic chicken grown in BC, slaughtered in BC, then frozen, shipped to China for processing and shipped back to BC for retail sale.

The only thing more pathetic than Vancouver are the pretentious twats living there.
I don't think that the further processing is done in China.....at least I know ten years ago chicken was all further processed in the plants they were slaughtered in....under CFIA regulations that was illegal.
Even out of province product, from places in Ont. Or Quebec was very frowned on, never mind another country .
I'll look into it and get back too you....but I highly doubt that is accurate.
 

SkinnyJohn

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The problem with Vancouver is not enough bike lanes. We need more! Get rid of all those cars!
 

BobbyMcgee

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i'm only going to say this as a generalization, Canada and Vancouver, used to have an identity that we could ALL be proud of, but unfortunately it has been sold out to the highest bidder now and isn't likely to ever come back anytime soon, young Trudeau's influence or not. Canadian Identity is fading fast.
 

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The problem with Vancouver is not enough bike lanes. We need more! Get rid of all those cars!
And more parking meters with higher rates. Bring back the horse drawn carriage and the party line phone.
I'm actually for bicycles use but not so much in a climate with 8 months of rain.
 

sybian

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And more parking meters with higher rates. Bring back the horse drawn carriage and the party line phone.
I'm actually for bicycles use but not so much in a climate with 8 months of rain.
You can tie your horse outside the Pub around here, have a few, then the damn animal will find its own way home, with you half passed out on his back...and animals always have the right of way in traffic laws.
They also are the ultimate chick magnet, a cop can't suspend your drivers permit, they cant impound your ride,all the fuel you need is growing right on the roadside , the only exhaust is considered organic fertilizer, and you won't get fined for not having winter tires.
 
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