Mentions (15)
"For a city with such natural beauty, Vancouver is one the most soulless cities on the planet. The city feels like it was built by aliens. It is only inhabited by junkies, trust fund kids and rich Asian immigrants."
"She was from Manhattan. I was from Vancouver. We met during the tail end of covid on this app when you basically write long form letters to random people across the world. I can't immigrate the US unless we got married, and that just wasn't something either of us were ready for."
"On Air Canada you get none of that for a 5 hour flight from Toronto to Vancouver because it just so happens to be domestic."
"Overdose capital in North America. Higher cost of living than LA but lower salaries. Massive homelessness. Unfriendly, miserable people. Grey skies for months. It sucks."
"I'm curious what the basics are in like London, Chicago, Vancouver, Atlanta, DC, etc. and the history of it all, and if US fashion in comparison is generally androgynous or just the northern cities"
"and I was just chatted up in line getting on an airplane to Vancouver by a gorgeous woman into electronic music & shoegaze because I have a Slowdive pin on my bag as well as a bit of aura and personality."
"In the last ten years, my grandparents and one aunt have died, one of my aunts and one of my cousins have moved to Vancouver, three cousins have moved to Toronto, one of my closest friends has moved to New York, one to Montreal, one to the Netherlands"
"BC can be nice this time of year and I believe there are some acting jobs in Vancouver."
"Recently in Vancouver, the indigenous band that owned a marina announced that they were evicting all the boats, including 100 people who lived there full time. They're now basically homeless but still people defend them since "it's their land they can do what they want""
"i'm a zoomer and living in Vancouver/Victoria and seldom meet people like myself."
"For decades, Vancouver was an industrial city, built around logging and the ports. But as industry has gone by the wayside, the city and its people have completely failed to come up with any sort of identity, any sort of culture. Whatever remnants of the past that do remain get bulldozed in place of"
"New York sucks, LA sucks, I don't wanna move back to Portland after college (ok maybe I do), fuck Seattle, Boston's weird, Vancouver's expensive, the Bay is lame, Toronto's lame, I can't move to Europe"
"She ended up living in Vancouver and dying there in 1999, never seeing any of her children again."
"For decades, Vancouver was an industrial city, built around logging and the ports. But as industry has gone by the wayside, the city and its people have completely failed to come up with any sort of identity, any sort of culture."
"looking for husband (preferably in 20s) in BC, van"