@bangkurni1722 Love to hear that. Glad that it's all worked out well for you! :) What's the biggest difference you've noticed between Vancouver and Toronto?
Hello! I been watching your videos for a few months now and I really love all the tips you give about Vancouver. I really appreciate your honesty about your city. I am currently in Texas but I am soon to be moving to Vancouver in a few weeks time to a month to work as a nurse.
@InuchanConejito Very cool. Thanks for watching from Texas. I hope you don't mind a little bit more rain and lush greenery. :) Let me know if you have any questions!
Watching from Alaska and planning to move to the Vancouver area this summer. I really appreciate your videos! They’ve been very influential in our plans. We already have a job there (my husband has been working for a company in downtown Vancouver for the last decade as the Alaska project engineer. We are ready to work face to face with coworkers because zoom and bimonthly travel from AK just doesn’t cut it after a while). We have two college kids and an awesome bonus baby who will be in elementary school. One of my kids wants to go to UBC. I’m a high school math and science teacher and can work anywhere as a sub until I get licensing sorted out. We are looking for a family friendly neighborhood, outdoor access, good schools, and reasonable commute times (idealistic??). We plan to rent first to get to know the region better. Then we hope to buy. This video has all the reasons we are excited to move to your beautiful city. Hopefully this info gives you the gist of why your videos are so useful to us. Thank you!
Thanks for continuing to watch @courtneyneuffer2988 and for sharing about your family. I'm sure that you and your family are going to love living in Metro Vancouver. PS it was -16 yesterday here in Vancouver so I'm feeling like I live in Alaska right now too (very unusual for us). :)
The water in Vancouver is so good. Having lived in a few big cities with bad water before I really appreciate it. You don’t have to buy water in bottles or anything. And the air is very clean indeed.
@arianaarias8680 Thanks for watching and for sharing. I hope you are able to make the move to Vancouver one day...and let me know if there are any topics you'd like to see me cover! :)
@snowwalker9999 Yep. Agreed! While parts of Metro Vancouver can get quite a bit of rain (I'm looking at you North Vancouver), the most significant part falls in the winter months.
Boston, Massachusetts; USA. I have been to Vancouver and other parts of BC in the last several years to visit relatives. I very much enjoy your insider perspectives on metro Vancouver as I look forward to planning longer visits to the area; and contributing to the local economy in the process 😊.
@lennyl6856 Appreciate you watching and taking the time to respond! Glad to hear that you are enjoying the videos and hope you get to visit frequently. PS I’m still not over that Stanley cup final loss. ;)
I am from Ottawa although its a beautiful city I love the climate mountains and Ocean in vancouver. Vancouver here I come 🫡. Thank you for your great honest content 👍🏽 Keep up the great work ✨️
Thank you @MTN99999! And congratulations on deciding to make the move to Vancouver! If you love all those things, then you'll love living here for sure. :) Appreciate you watching and sharing your thoughts!
Oh my pleasure thank you 🙏🏾. I will most definitely reach out when I am ready to move forward. I've learned a lot from your videos thanks for sharing your thoughts experiences and wisdom👍🏽
Watching from the Chinese mainland. I am going to Vancouver for my graduate study at UBC this August. Appreciate your excellent sharing and videos. I am looking forward to starting my new life in Vancouver~
The ONLY thing Vancouver has going for itself at this point, is the stunning and unique geographic location. I'm watching this from Gdynia, a Polish city on the coast of the Baltic sea. I've been in Europe since last July, having quit my job, sold off most of my stuff, after 25 years of living in Vancouver. A city I loved for a long time, but it's definitely stopped loving me a while ago. In fact, it started feeling more like an abusive, one-sided relationship. I worked out at UBC and was fairly involved in the processes concerning lack of affordable housing, resistance towards higher density developments, and rapid transit hurdles. All this was of course exacerbated by the greedy (on the part of the University) intake of international students, but as you mention, increasing population is a Vancouver-wide problem. I made a very decent salary, but half of it went to rent for a studio apartment in False Creek. A supposedly great neighbourhood right by the water, where I had the pleasure of stumbling over passed out drug addicts, garbage or needles on my very doorstep. Tents and open drug use would continuously pop up in the park along False Creek, it's become our new normal. Poised to stay that way, considering the injunction that the BC Supreme Court just granted against the B.C. NDP government's legislation banning all drug use in a wide range of public spaces. Exuberant cost of rent and drug epidemic aside, there is also the Canada-wide problem of insane grocery prices, same goes for internet and phone plans as well as domestic flights - all due to lack of regulation of oligopolies in the country. As far as all this wonderful "diversity" you mention, that's pretty much only true in specific areas of Metro Vancouver, the rest are essentially becoming enclaves for immigrants clustering together according to ethnic background. Random crime stats are also on the rise due to the cost of living and fentanyl crisis. Yet, the city continues to press on with its misguided "harm reduction" policies, and the feds not only decriminalized minimum possession of lethal drugs, but give "safer' versions of them away for free, courtesy of taxpayers money. I could go on and on. It literally physically pains me to bear witness to this city deteriorating into what it has become over the past quarter of a decade. Overpriced luxury developments with needles strewn on the streets below, that's the picture of downtown Vancouver where I lived for 19 years before moving to False Creek. Having an EU passport, I have a crucial decision to make in the coming months. I miss Vancouver for many reasons, it was my home for a long time, but I will say that it's an amazing feeling not to have seen one tent, one homeless person or one needle on the street in the past six months. To walk around a city where things are clean, safe and orderly. I believe that the wealth divide, cost of living and drug crisis will only deepen in the coming years in Vancouver, especially if the NDP stays in power at the provincial level and the Liberals continue to fiscally run the country into the ground at the federal level. I pray that it never resembles the current ruin of San Francisco, but I would not rule it out. Like I keep saying, it both pains and angers me to watch a place I loved so much become essentially unliveable for the average, non-home owning citizen. And for those in power to be talking a good talk, yet be seemingly intent on furthering policies that only worsen the problem, something I've seen in action first-hand at my previous job.
Thank you for watching and sharing your opinions @maggie8586. There's too much in your post for me to address specificially...but clearly you feel strongly about your reasons for leaving Vancouver and have found a home that better suits you. I don't agree with a lot of your views. Your experience and the conclusions you've drawn aren't my own...and I view Vancouver as handling the changes we've seen in the world recently better than any similar sized North American city. But again, good for you for moving on and finding a more suitable home for you.
@@LivingInVancouver-BC Aside from professional bias, I'd be really curious to know how you can possibly conclude that a city ranking as the world's third most expensive real estate market, is handling things "better". Nope, sorry, we certainly aren't handling housing and affordability issues better than the rest of North America. And just because certain US cities are worse in terms of petty crime, homelessness and fentanyl crisis, yeah that's not exactly medal worthy, especially if you compare Vancouver to the majority of European cities where you just do no see this type of deterioration. I would say that if you consider the stagnant salaries, high taxation, high cost of living, the unaffordability and UNAVAILABILITY of housing, lagging infrastructure, plus the proliferating homelessness and drug crisis - Vancouver is certainly not better off than most comparable North American municipalities. And from where I'm sitting, I see nothing on the governance front that would give me hope for improvement, quite the opposite.
LOL. It's really easy to claim "professional bias". Have you watched my videos? They are pointedly balanced, honest and fair. This isn't a channel that's just pumping Vancouver. I'm trying to give people that don't know this city a balanced view of what it's really like....not just the good, but the bad too. I talk about the issues you feel so strongly about in many of my videos, so I suspect you probably just watched this single video. I've stated the reasons why I think Vancouver is an amazing place to live in many of my videos. Given the continued growth of Vancouver (very consistently one of the fastest growing major cities in Canada for decades), the majority of people agree with me. Could Vancouver be doing better? Absolutely! There's always room for improvement...and I've never claimed otherwise. But I continue to believe that Vancouver is doing much better than cities like Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and LA. You don't agree, and that's fine...but I'm not really interested in trying to change your mind. I hope things work out for you in your chosen path. And as I said before, I really do appreciate you sharing your experiences and watching the channel!
@@LivingInVancouver-BC I've actually watched and commented on other videos of yours. The responses do seem pretty formulaic. Thank you, don't agree, don't have time to go into detail, appreciate sharing your experience. As for bias, you can't escape it. I've worked for the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, I know the mold.
LOL. After I take the time to address your comments, I notice that you are picking a new criticism/argument rather than addressing my response. That's exactly why I don't engage in arguments online. There's no positive outcome. If you'd like to continue a constructive conversation, you know where I am...but otherwise, let's put our time to better use.
@siddh1799 Cool! Really appreciate you checking out the channel and I wish you all the best with your move. Let me know if you have any outstanding questions!
It is a nice city for retirement but I can’t see how I will be able to afford living here without a sizable income. There is no way I can buy anything here and be done with mortgage payments by the time I’m ready to retire. Completely unaffordable if you came here in the last 10 years or so.
While being able to pay off a mortgage before you retire may not be possible for you, @nicktankard1244...what you would have is a very nice nest egg built up in equity over those years. As opposed to renting, where all that money goes to pay down someone else's mortgage. That's what I would personally do if I had to make the choice.
@@LivingInVancouver-BC yeah but you will have to pay monthly payments and you need a decent income for that. But even that I don’t see how I can afford to buy anything in Vancouver and the prices are only going up
@nicktankard1244 Well, yes. There's the monthly mortgage payment, taxes and maintenance fees that all go into it. Just as there would be the monthly cost of renting. Either one will require a decent income. My point was only that there's still a benefit to owning over time even if you don't pay it off entirely. It's the possibility of building up equity that isn't a benefit of renting.
Reading, UK. Have been lucky enough to visit family in Kits for 3mths in total over the last 5 years. Loved it. But each time got more expensive; to the point that we didn't do couple of things we wanted. Great that the Mobi bikes were extended to Kits last visit.
@soldierofpeace I think that would depend on who you are and what your perspective is. But, did you watch the whole video? I answer WHO as well as WHY.
@soldierofpeace Oh...sounded as though you were saying I only talked about why people are moving. But since you watched the video you'll know I spoke at length about the different groups we are seeing moving to Vancouver. Appreciate you watching!
Many different kinds of people are moving there, for many different reasons. That’s one of the things that comes with a big city- people from all different walks of life there for different reasons. Maybe I’m mistaken, but this comment seems like it could just be a polarized political opinion
Vancouver or Victoria are the places you go to when you have made your money and don’t need more. Twice I have been approached about jobs there, and both times I would have to take about a 40% pay cut versus Calgary (senior management / executive jobs are a lot more lucrative in Cowtown once you get into Oil and Gas). When you factor in the higher house prices it just doesn’t work. I don’t think it’s healthy for Vancouver, it’s not attracting talent, it’s attracting wealth (there is a lot in the world), which is just going to make it worse for regular folks who never get the opportunity unless they were wise enough to buy real estate twenty years ago. Another pet peeve of Vancouver, is in Calgary they spread social services across the city, in Vancouver everything is concentrated in East Hastings. I guess the positive there, is if your kids go off the rails, you will know where to find them, in Canadas slum.
@mkyhou1160 You have a point to a degree. People definitely choose to live in Vancouver for the lifestyle, and not in pursuit of the best paying jobs (as a generalization). Higher paying work does exist in smaller cities across Canada where the cost of housing is considerably lower. And I don't doubt in your line of work that pay could be significantly lower here than in Calgary...BUT, Vancouver also has very high paying jobs and opportunities these days. And yes, social services for homelessness and drug addiction are centered around East Hastings...because that's where the issue is concentrated.
I lived here 20 years. came from China, I feel the hill billies are moving out in with the new. you have the very poor, Indians and also the rich Saudi middle east and Chinese coming in. its just being more of a full society, a fully society have all social classes not just middle class like we use to have
@@LivingInVancouver-BC , we are moving to the mainland this Spring because of life/work balance, as you alluded to. We would have contacted you when made the purchase decision had I seen your YT vids then. Anyway, I know who to refer to for other families that might follow our path.
I appreciate that @raulrivera960! Referrals are always welcome...but I hope that you enjoy your transition to Vancouver. What part of the city did you decide to make home?
Definitely are not coming to Vancouver to find a family doctor, daycare for kids or affordable housing. If any of those are your hope.... look elsewhere!
@ChrisParkens Those are definitely some of the challenges people are finding in Vancouver these days....and issues that I discuss in a number of my other videos, too. These are pretty consistent with a city seeing so much growth. Appreciate you watching!
For sure. It goes against the louder narrative that we've been hearing. But, big cities always have people coming and going, of course...and the trend in Vancouver is definitely one of growth. Not only growth but one of the fastest growing regions in Canada quite consistently for decades. Thanks for watching and commenting @denesbastos2001
Looking for medical or school social worker job in great Vancouver. Fluently speaking Mandarin and English. Got my master of social work in Ontario. Many opportunities there?
What's the earthquake chance you would say? I mean kind of a stupid thing to ask, but it's one of the downsides for metro Vancouver. If it happens, Richmond would probably be the first to be gone, would Burnaby stand the highest chance of having the least damage due to its elevation?
My entire life they've been warning us that a big earthquake is imminent. We used to have earthquake drills in classrooms when I was a kid...and they still do. So predicting when one will happen doesn't seem too precise...but we are likely to have one (as everywhere around the pacific "ring of fire" is supposed to). Most of Vancouver is built on bedrock and well above sea-level (Vancouver, Burnaby and Coquitlam for example) We aren't really at risk of tidal waves due to the protection of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands...but there is land that could liquify or be flooded. Richmond is the prime example that many don't realize is technically below sea level. But there are other areas along the Fraser River that could be at risk (like the Fraserview area of Vancouver, Queensborough of New West or Delta). I hope that helps!
Lived in Vancouver for a while. I loved it so much, it will always have a special place in my heart and I am very grateful I could have such experience in my life. I think I would like to live there if I could. ❤
@@LivingInVancouver-BC I was working as Valet and also A delivery driver, I was able to see so much and also Burnaby, Langley and other areas in Greater Van, very gorgeous. I live in Scotland for now, building family 😊
I think a lot of ppl from Alberta moving to Vancouver did retire as Albertan think Vancouver has more choices of restaurants, close to Ocean and mild weather . Of course those Albertan have no Money issues .
@joevanbaidwan3196 Metro Vancouver is unequivocally the third largest population center in Canada behind Toronto and Montreal according to Statscan. If you are just comparing cities, then Vancouver is well down the list at number 8, I believe? I think you might want to double check your source. But appreciate your watching!
Nice. Well, I appreciate you checking out the channel! Have you seen my video on the pros and cons of living in White Rock? I'd love to hear your opinions on it!
Wasted my earnings and life plans when I decided to come here. Do not go there, people are so rude, not friendly and moreover money hungry capitalists all there. If you are a healthcare worker who wants to do good for community there. Firstly you will get smashed by cert processes and then job challenges. Its bullshit.
OMG, this is so Pollyanna! This city is for the very rich. Also it is a depressing drug city with fentanyl happily coming in to the city. OMG the diversity point you made is typical Canadian propaganda. Most cities in the world are diverse, perhaps you haven't traveled. As for the economic opportunities, well yes if you want to be a drug dealer and then launder your money so that you can live in a diverse neighborhood like Kerrisdale and Dunbar. The only economic opportunities here are in real estate. Finally, this is a city with poorly constructed architecture due to greed, and there's no CULTURE--but then the people here love to call this a "world class city" a term no other cities in the world have to reassure themselves with. This is just a big old ex-logging town. You need to travel and see real cities with a thriving culture not based on real estate and laundered money.
@@LivingInVancouver-BC Sorry that you're getting so much hate. Not sure why people feel the need to come and rant on your channel. Thanks for your helpful content.
@@ExNihilo634there seems to be a specific "type" of person that has negative things to say about Canada and diversity Their whole focus on "money laundering and drugs" is wildly out of touch with reality LOL
@ExNihilo634 I appreciate that and I'm grateful for viewers like you and @XueYlva that support and enjoy my videos. Nothing surprises me in the TH-cam comments anymore. LOL. ;)
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Watching from Vancouver. Many great point made in this video.
@teccrab Thank you so much! Glad to have you watching! :)
Moving from Toronto to Vancouver last year, never regrets
@bangkurni1722 Love to hear that. Glad that it's all worked out well for you! :) What's the biggest difference you've noticed between Vancouver and Toronto?
Watching from Rio, BR . Great vídeo. Thanks a lot!!!!!
@henriquevicentehickey111 Welcome! And thank you so much for watching! :)
Hello! I been watching your videos for a few months now and I really love all the tips you give about Vancouver. I really appreciate your honesty about your city. I am currently in Texas but I am soon to be moving to Vancouver in a few weeks time to a month to work as a nurse.
Interesting. I dream of moving to Texas from Vancouver. Tired of the weather here.
@InuchanConejito Very cool. Thanks for watching from Texas. I hope you don't mind a little bit more rain and lush greenery. :) Let me know if you have any questions!
What city in Texas or what part ?
Thank you for your response! I’m finally here now and I’m mesmerized by the natural beauty and the mountains of this city!
I will surely let you know if I have any questions! Keep posting love your videos!
Excellent. A very well thought out and effective delivery. This one was pretty much all you, and I enjoyed it.l
Thank you @marcberrenson570! Appreciate your continued support and happy to hear you enjoyed this one!
Watching from Alaska and planning to move to the Vancouver area this summer. I really appreciate your videos! They’ve been very influential in our plans.
We already have a job there (my husband has been working for a company in downtown Vancouver for the last decade as the Alaska project engineer. We are ready to work face to face with coworkers because zoom and bimonthly travel from AK just doesn’t cut it after a while).
We have two college kids and an awesome bonus baby who will be in elementary school. One of my kids wants to go to UBC. I’m a high school math and science teacher and can work anywhere as a sub until I get licensing sorted out.
We are looking for a family friendly neighborhood, outdoor access, good schools, and reasonable commute times (idealistic??). We plan to rent first to get to know the region better. Then we hope to buy.
This video has all the reasons we are excited to move to your beautiful city. Hopefully this info gives you the gist of why your videos are so useful to us. Thank you!
Thanks for continuing to watch @courtneyneuffer2988 and for sharing about your family. I'm sure that you and your family are going to love living in Metro Vancouver. PS it was -16 yesterday here in Vancouver so I'm feeling like I live in Alaska right now too (very unusual for us). :)
The water in Vancouver is so good. Having lived in a few big cities with bad water before I really appreciate it. You don’t have to buy water in bottles or anything. And the air is very clean indeed.
You're so right.
@nicktankard1244 100%!
watching from Bordeaux in France! 🇫🇷 Thanks for your work and your channel.🙏
Amazing @MrJulienFalxa! Glad you're enjoying the videos! Appreciate you watching and commenting. :)
We follow your videos and are watching from Cali, Colombia. Greetings, we love your videos!
@arianaarias8680 Thanks for watching and for sharing. I hope you are able to make the move to Vancouver one day...and let me know if there are any topics you'd like to see me cover! :)
I am watching your videos from Peacehaven in the county of East Sussex down on the South Coast of United Kingdom👋👋
Thanks for watching @shabbirmohamedali4375! I hope you are enjoying checking out Vancouver.
Vancouver is rainy only during the winter months. There’s very little snow. It rains a lot more in some parts of Texas and east coast.
@snowwalker9999 Yep. Agreed! While parts of Metro Vancouver can get quite a bit of rain (I'm looking at you North Vancouver), the most significant part falls in the winter months.
Boston, Massachusetts; USA. I have been to Vancouver and other parts of BC in the last several years to visit relatives.
I very much enjoy your insider perspectives on metro Vancouver as I look forward to planning longer visits to the area; and contributing to the local economy in the process 😊.
@lennyl6856 Appreciate you watching and taking the time to respond! Glad to hear that you are enjoying the videos and hope you get to visit frequently. PS I’m still not over that Stanley cup final loss. ;)
I am from Ottawa although its a beautiful city I love the climate mountains and Ocean in vancouver. Vancouver here I come 🫡. Thank you for your great honest content 👍🏽 Keep up the great work ✨️
Thank you @MTN99999! And congratulations on deciding to make the move to Vancouver! If you love all those things, then you'll love living here for sure. :) Appreciate you watching and sharing your thoughts!
Oh my pleasure thank you 🙏🏾. I will most definitely reach out when I am ready to move forward. I've learned a lot from your videos thanks for sharing your thoughts experiences and wisdom👍🏽
Thanks @mtn99999 it’s really nice to hear from my viewers that value and appreciate the videos. It makes all the effort worth it. :)
Watching from the Chinese mainland. I am going to Vancouver for my graduate study at UBC this August.
Appreciate your excellent sharing and videos. I am looking forward to starting my new life in Vancouver~
That's great, @chengyuanliu666! Hope you enjoy your studies and have an amazing time in Vancouver!
The ONLY thing Vancouver has going for itself at this point, is the stunning and unique geographic location. I'm watching this from Gdynia, a Polish city on the coast of the Baltic sea. I've been in Europe since last July, having quit my job, sold off most of my stuff, after 25 years of living in Vancouver. A city I loved for a long time, but it's definitely stopped loving me a while ago. In fact, it started feeling more like an abusive, one-sided relationship. I worked out at UBC and was fairly involved in the processes concerning lack of affordable housing, resistance towards higher density developments, and rapid transit hurdles. All this was of course exacerbated by the greedy (on the part of the University) intake of international students, but as you mention, increasing population is a Vancouver-wide problem. I made a very decent salary, but half of it went to rent for a studio apartment in False Creek. A supposedly great neighbourhood right by the water, where I had the pleasure of stumbling over passed out drug addicts, garbage or needles on my very doorstep. Tents and open drug use would continuously pop up in the park along False Creek, it's become our new normal. Poised to stay that way, considering the injunction that the BC Supreme Court just granted against the B.C. NDP government's legislation banning all drug use in a wide range of public spaces. Exuberant cost of rent and drug epidemic aside, there is also the Canada-wide problem of insane grocery prices, same goes for internet and phone plans as well as domestic flights - all due to lack of regulation of oligopolies in the country. As far as all this wonderful "diversity" you mention, that's pretty much only true in specific areas of Metro Vancouver, the rest are essentially becoming enclaves for immigrants clustering together according to ethnic background. Random crime stats are also on the rise due to the cost of living and fentanyl crisis. Yet, the city continues to press on with its misguided "harm reduction" policies, and the feds not only decriminalized minimum possession of lethal drugs, but give "safer' versions of them away for free, courtesy of taxpayers money. I could go on and on. It literally physically pains me to bear witness to this city deteriorating into what it has become over the past quarter of a decade. Overpriced luxury developments with needles strewn on the streets below, that's the picture of downtown Vancouver where I lived for 19 years before moving to False Creek. Having an EU passport, I have a crucial decision to make in the coming months. I miss Vancouver for many reasons, it was my home for a long time, but I will say that it's an amazing feeling not to have seen one tent, one homeless person or one needle on the street in the past six months. To walk around a city where things are clean, safe and orderly. I believe that the wealth divide, cost of living and drug crisis will only deepen in the coming years in Vancouver, especially if the NDP stays in power at the provincial level and the Liberals continue to fiscally run the country into the ground at the federal level. I pray that it never resembles the current ruin of San Francisco, but I would not rule it out. Like I keep saying, it both pains and angers me to watch a place I loved so much become essentially unliveable for the average, non-home owning citizen. And for those in power to be talking a good talk, yet be seemingly intent on furthering policies that only worsen the problem, something I've seen in action first-hand at my previous job.
Thank you for watching and sharing your opinions @maggie8586. There's too much in your post for me to address specificially...but clearly you feel strongly about your reasons for leaving Vancouver and have found a home that better suits you. I don't agree with a lot of your views. Your experience and the conclusions you've drawn aren't my own...and I view Vancouver as handling the changes we've seen in the world recently better than any similar sized North American city. But again, good for you for moving on and finding a more suitable home for you.
@@LivingInVancouver-BC Aside from professional bias, I'd be really curious to know how you can possibly conclude that a city ranking as the world's third most expensive real estate market, is handling things "better". Nope, sorry, we certainly aren't handling housing and affordability issues better than the rest of North America. And just because certain US cities are worse in terms of petty crime, homelessness and fentanyl crisis, yeah that's not exactly medal worthy, especially if you compare Vancouver to the majority of European cities where you just do no see this type of deterioration. I would say that if you consider the stagnant salaries, high taxation, high cost of living, the unaffordability and UNAVAILABILITY of housing, lagging infrastructure, plus the proliferating homelessness and drug crisis - Vancouver is certainly not better off than most comparable North American municipalities. And from where I'm sitting, I see nothing on the governance front that would give me hope for improvement, quite the opposite.
LOL. It's really easy to claim "professional bias".
Have you watched my videos? They are pointedly balanced, honest and fair. This isn't a channel that's just pumping Vancouver. I'm trying to give people that don't know this city a balanced view of what it's really like....not just the good, but the bad too.
I talk about the issues you feel so strongly about in many of my videos, so I suspect you probably just watched this single video.
I've stated the reasons why I think Vancouver is an amazing place to live in many of my videos. Given the continued growth of Vancouver (very consistently one of the fastest growing major cities in Canada for decades), the majority of people agree with me.
Could Vancouver be doing better? Absolutely! There's always room for improvement...and I've never claimed otherwise. But I continue to believe that Vancouver is doing much better than cities like Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and LA.
You don't agree, and that's fine...but I'm not really interested in trying to change your mind.
I hope things work out for you in your chosen path. And as I said before, I really do appreciate you sharing your experiences and watching the channel!
@@LivingInVancouver-BC I've actually watched and commented on other videos of yours. The responses do seem pretty formulaic. Thank you, don't agree, don't have time to go into detail, appreciate sharing your experience. As for bias, you can't escape it. I've worked for the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, I know the mold.
LOL. After I take the time to address your comments, I notice that you are picking a new criticism/argument rather than addressing my response. That's exactly why I don't engage in arguments online. There's no positive outcome. If you'd like to continue a constructive conversation, you know where I am...but otherwise, let's put our time to better use.
Watching from Mauritius 🇲🇺. Will be in Vancouver in 3 months 😊
@siddh1799 Cool! Really appreciate you checking out the channel and I wish you all the best with your move. Let me know if you have any outstanding questions!
A pure Vancouverite here. ✨️ Love this small city. A great place to retire now too at 57. Amen 🙏 Lived in Paris, Rome and Milan.
Welcome back to Vancouver @johnnyboyvan! I hope that you enjoy your retirement! :)
It is a nice city for retirement but I can’t see how I will be able to afford living here without a sizable income. There is no way I can buy anything here and be done with mortgage payments by the time I’m ready to retire. Completely unaffordable if you came here in the last 10 years or so.
While being able to pay off a mortgage before you retire may not be possible for you, @nicktankard1244...what you would have is a very nice nest egg built up in equity over those years. As opposed to renting, where all that money goes to pay down someone else's mortgage. That's what I would personally do if I had to make the choice.
@@LivingInVancouver-BC yeah but you will have to pay monthly payments and you need a decent income for that. But even that I don’t see how I can afford to buy anything in Vancouver and the prices are only going up
@nicktankard1244 Well, yes. There's the monthly mortgage payment, taxes and maintenance fees that all go into it. Just as there would be the monthly cost of renting. Either one will require a decent income. My point was only that there's still a benefit to owning over time even if you don't pay it off entirely. It's the possibility of building up equity that isn't a benefit of renting.
Reading, UK. Have been lucky enough to visit family in Kits for 3mths in total over the last 5 years. Loved it. But each time got more expensive; to the point that we didn't do couple of things we wanted. Great that the Mobi bikes were extended to Kits last visit.
@colfraser123 appreciate you watching and sharing your experience. Next visit could be even better with the addition of the skytrain coming to Kits.
Today is sunny, -12. But the sky looks amazing
@xXxFaustoMoraesxXx I was out there filming in yesterday's -16. Brrr! Hope you are staying warm. :)
Yesterday was really cold. I almost froze to death waiting for a bus :)
@nicktankard1244 Yeah. I don't doubt it. It was a bit extreme! Glad you made it @nicktankard1244.
Watching from Calgary! Love BC, especially Victoria 🙂!
@tmaharisoa That's great! Happy to have you and hope you are enjoying the videos. Thanks for sharing!
I think more important question would be WHO is moving rather than why :)
@soldierofpeace I think that would depend on who you are and what your perspective is. But, did you watch the whole video? I answer WHO as well as WHY.
I did watch :)
@soldierofpeace Oh...sounded as though you were saying I only talked about why people are moving. But since you watched the video you'll know I spoke at length about the different groups we are seeing moving to Vancouver. Appreciate you watching!
Many different kinds of people are moving there, for many different reasons. That’s one of the things that comes with a big city- people from all different walks of life there for different reasons.
Maybe I’m mistaken, but this comment seems like it could just be a polarized political opinion
100% @jaykay1899!
Watching from Japan!
@reannewu Very cool! Appreciate you watching and sharing. :)
Vancouver or Victoria are the places you go to when you have made your money and don’t need more. Twice I have been approached about jobs there, and both times I would have to take about a 40% pay cut versus Calgary (senior management / executive jobs are a lot more lucrative in Cowtown once you get into Oil and Gas). When you factor in the higher house prices it just doesn’t work. I don’t think it’s healthy for Vancouver, it’s not attracting talent, it’s attracting wealth (there is a lot in the world), which is just going to make it worse for regular folks who never get the opportunity unless they were wise enough to buy real estate twenty years ago. Another pet peeve of Vancouver, is in Calgary they spread social services across the city, in Vancouver everything is concentrated in East Hastings. I guess the positive there, is if your kids go off the rails, you will know where to find them, in Canadas slum.
@mkyhou1160 You have a point to a degree. People definitely choose to live in Vancouver for the lifestyle, and not in pursuit of the best paying jobs (as a generalization). Higher paying work does exist in smaller cities across Canada where the cost of housing is considerably lower. And I don't doubt in your line of work that pay could be significantly lower here than in Calgary...BUT, Vancouver also has very high paying jobs and opportunities these days. And yes, social services for homelessness and drug addiction are centered around East Hastings...because that's where the issue is concentrated.
I lived here 20 years. came from China, I feel the hill billies are moving out in with the new. you have the very poor, Indians and also the rich Saudi middle east and Chinese coming in. its just being more of a full society, a fully society have all social classes not just middle class like we use to have
The weather, city, life balance.
@Eag757 Yes, all great reasons to call Vancouver home! Appreciate you watching and sharing your thoughts!
watching from Victoria, BC
Thanks @raulrivera960...not too far, but not too close all at the same time. ;)
@@LivingInVancouver-BC , we are moving to the mainland this Spring because of life/work balance, as you alluded to. We would have contacted you when made the purchase decision had I seen your YT vids then. Anyway, I know who to refer to for other families that might follow our path.
I appreciate that @raulrivera960! Referrals are always welcome...but I hope that you enjoy your transition to Vancouver. What part of the city did you decide to make home?
@@LivingInVancouver-BC We will be near Brentwood Stn in N Burnaby
There's a lot happening in that neighborhood these days, plus it's very central. I'm sure that you'll enjoy it @raulrivera960!
Definitely are not coming to Vancouver to find a family doctor, daycare for kids or affordable housing. If any of those are your hope.... look elsewhere!
@ChrisParkens Those are definitely some of the challenges people are finding in Vancouver these days....and issues that I discuss in a number of my other videos, too. These are pretty consistent with a city seeing so much growth. Appreciate you watching!
Interesting, I only see people leaving Vancouver, maybe some immigrants with a lot of money
For sure. It goes against the louder narrative that we've been hearing. But, big cities always have people coming and going, of course...and the trend in Vancouver is definitely one of growth. Not only growth but one of the fastest growing regions in Canada quite consistently for decades. Thanks for watching and commenting @denesbastos2001
From Australia 😊
Very cool @giuliaalzona6291. I love Australia. Are you thinking of moving or just visiting Vancouver?
Looking for medical or school social worker job in great Vancouver. Fluently speaking Mandarin and English. Got my master of social work in Ontario. Many opportunities there?
Hi @annieg8143. Absolutely. There's going to be an enormous demand for your skills as a social worker here in Vancouver!
What's the earthquake chance you would say? I mean kind of a stupid thing to ask, but it's one of the downsides for metro Vancouver. If it happens, Richmond would probably be the first to be gone, would Burnaby stand the highest chance of having the least damage due to its elevation?
My entire life they've been warning us that a big earthquake is imminent. We used to have earthquake drills in classrooms when I was a kid...and they still do. So predicting when one will happen doesn't seem too precise...but we are likely to have one (as everywhere around the pacific "ring of fire" is supposed to).
Most of Vancouver is built on bedrock and well above sea-level (Vancouver, Burnaby and Coquitlam for example) We aren't really at risk of tidal waves due to the protection of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands...but there is land that could liquify or be flooded. Richmond is the prime example that many don't realize is technically below sea level. But there are other areas along the Fraser River that could be at risk (like the Fraserview area of Vancouver, Queensborough of New West or Delta).
I hope that helps!
@@LivingInVancouver-BC Thanks for the reply, will definitely reach out when we move to Vancouver in the near future! We are from Edmonton.
Sounds good @g59490155! :)
Lived in Vancouver for a while. I loved it so much, it will always have a special place in my heart and I am very grateful I could have such experience in my life.
I think I would like to live there if I could. ❤
@ApostlePatrikWiedermann Glad to hear that you loved living in Vancouver so much! Where are you living now?
@@LivingInVancouver-BC I was working as Valet and also A delivery driver, I was able to see so much and also Burnaby, Langley and other areas in Greater Van, very gorgeous.
I live in Scotland for now, building family 😊
Nice @ApostlePatrikWiedermann Enjoy Scotland! You like the rainy winters, apparently! :)
Watching from India
Appreciate you checking out the channel @manishchoffla!
I have a Canadian PR, and if I do plan to move to Vancouver, will surely give you a call. Really appreciate your videos. Very informative.
Thank you so much! I love hearing that you are getting value out of my videos @manishchoffla!
Watching from Burnaby 😅
Thanks for watching neighbor @henryyu2085! :)
The west coast is the best coast... I think a high percentage of people may be moving in from out of country.
@icemanlikegervin Yes definitely one of the biggest groups moving into Vancouver right now.
I think a lot of ppl from Alberta moving to Vancouver did retire as Albertan think Vancouver has more choices of restaurants, close to
Ocean and mild weather . Of course those Albertan have no
Money issues .
Yes for sure @janiceho6034. These are both groups that I mentioned :)
Brazil 🇧🇷
@janainamonteiro4322 Cool! Welcome to the channel...and thank you for sharing!
Vancouver 4th largest city in Canada
@joevanbaidwan3196 Metro Vancouver is unequivocally the third largest population center in Canada behind Toronto and Montreal according to Statscan. If you are just comparing cities, then Vancouver is well down the list at number 8, I believe? I think you might want to double check your source. But appreciate your watching!
White Rock
Nice. Well, I appreciate you checking out the channel! Have you seen my video on the pros and cons of living in White Rock? I'd love to hear your opinions on it!
people who are moving prolly have no idea ...
People who are moving have no idea about what @ed-od9sd?
Ethiopia
Very cool @naolamenu5615!
Wasted my earnings and life plans when I decided to come here. Do not go there, people are so rude, not friendly and moreover money hungry capitalists all there. If you are a healthcare worker who wants to do good for community there. Firstly you will get smashed by cert processes and then job challenges. Its bullshit.
I'm sorry to hear that you had such a rough experience in Vancouver @manojbasnet1220. Hopefully, wherever you ended up suits you much better!
OMG, this is so Pollyanna! This city is for the very rich. Also it is a depressing drug city with fentanyl happily coming in to the city. OMG the diversity point you made is typical Canadian propaganda. Most cities in the world are diverse, perhaps you haven't traveled. As for the economic opportunities, well yes if you want to be a drug dealer and then launder your money so that you can live in a diverse neighborhood like Kerrisdale and Dunbar. The only economic opportunities here are in real estate. Finally, this is a city with poorly constructed architecture due to greed, and there's no CULTURE--but then the people here love to call this a "world class city" a term no other cities in the world have to reassure themselves with. This is just a big old ex-logging town. You need to travel and see real cities with a thriving culture not based on real estate and laundered money.
I really don't know where to begin with your comments @snjez2762. You are welcome to your opinions, but they aren't mine.
@@LivingInVancouver-BC Sorry that you're getting so much hate. Not sure why people feel the need to come and rant on your channel. Thanks for your helpful content.
@@ExNihilo634there seems to be a specific "type" of person that has negative things to say about Canada and diversity
Their whole focus on "money laundering and drugs" is wildly out of touch with reality LOL
"Depressing drug city" LMFAO this person lives a soft life
@ExNihilo634 I appreciate that and I'm grateful for viewers like you and @XueYlva that support and enjoy my videos. Nothing surprises me in the TH-cam comments anymore. LOL. ;)