It's better than Vancity.
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Vancouver-Age |OT| 125 Years
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It's better than Vancity.
Pretty much haha. I told my friend and she said "Yep. WELCOME TO THE HOOD YO". WHAT UP HOMIES?!
But no. White Rock is more my pace. Haha. I operate at the exuberance of an old lady.
I'd almost want to say who I work for is hiring, but NDA'd and I'm still waiting on them to send the payment so I can actually get back to Vancouver. I'm stuck in Nebraska until then.
Vancouver's housing prices are insaaane
beat
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They're better in dollar terms than SF or NYC, but then again, compared to regional median income, I think Vancouver actually does worse than those two.
Downtown Vancouver haters? What? Drunken hooligan antics? What? The only places downtown with drunken hooligan antics is Gastown, Chinatown and Granville.
In my opinion, the area that's going to soon be the best part of downtown Vancouver is crosstown. When the viaducts are torn down and the beach, park & rec centre go in at False Creek, I'll be laughing at my place.
In my opinion, the area that's going to soon be the best part of downtown Vancouver is crosstown. When the viaducts are torn down and the beach, park & rec centre go in at False Creek, I'll be laughing at my place.
Eyecancer. I don't EVER want to see that name EVER again.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Vancity sounds terrible
I've never seen that.
I like to call Vancouver Vancouver.
MisterNugNug
Member
You say that in the U.S. and depending on the person's age they'll think Vietcong.
I say Van sometimes. It's ok I guess.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
+1 for Van
I say Van.
I haven't been to many bars downtown. What are the good ones?
This isn't scooby doo.
I haven't been to many bars downtown. What are the good ones?
This isn't scooby doo.
Wolf Dawgz
Member
I like the Couve. Sounds really groove.
Barrow Roll
Member
I'm gonna call it the Couve just to mess with people now. You never know, it might catch on. This city is full of hipsters.
SpectreFire
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beat
Member
Vancity would be fine if the credit union wasn't called that.
And YVR is unacceptable IMO because I hate it when people refer to a city by its major airport. (Pass for Calgary/YYC, because if you find yourself in Calgary, you'll probably want to head to the airport too.)
EnderWiggles
Member
Which is worse: the Couve or Trona
Another thing that I thought was interesting - Someone was mentioning the city will be the model green city either next year or soon after, and I found that cool as the juxtaposition of the town compared to all the big towns here (in TX). The city growing upwards instead of growing outwards.
Sort of to that point, the way things flow downtown is simply amazing. I made the remark that if this were downtown Dallas there would be wrecks happening in front of us, bike riders would be getting honked at and taken out, things would be clogged, etc. Very impressed by how things are there. Also, we the whole blinking green until someone presses the button... well done! I don't think that would ever work down here, but I do like it's purpose and effect.
random edited surprises:
- price/sq ft... WOW
- average wedding prices... WOW
- lack of overweight people
- Alberta is the Texas of Canada I was told
- quite a few jokes about French Candians
- quite a few jokes / stereotypes about particular races
- the "L" and "N" for new drivers!
- places taking USD
- paying with debit, people always bring out little machines... VERY seldom is that seen here.
I said that to the people I was staying with and they thought it was pretty catchy. So if it catches on with the hipsters I will be their king. Oh, and clearly the 'e' at the end makes it.
Sort of to that point, the way things flow downtown is simply amazing. I made the remark that if this were downtown Dallas there would be wrecks happening in front of us, bike riders would be getting honked at and taken out, things would be clogged, etc. Very impressed by how things are there. Also, we the whole blinking green until someone presses the button... well done! I don't think that would ever work down here, but I do like it's purpose and effect.
random edited surprises:
- price/sq ft... WOW
- average wedding prices... WOW
- lack of overweight people
- Alberta is the Texas of Canada I was told
- quite a few jokes about French Candians
- quite a few jokes / stereotypes about particular races
- the "L" and "N" for new drivers!
- places taking USD
- paying with debit, people always bring out little machines... VERY seldom is that seen here.
I said that to the people I was staying with and they thought it was pretty catchy. So if it catches on with the hipsters I will be their king. Oh, and clearly the 'e' at the end makes it.
distantmantra
Member
Oregon is part of Cascadia, so Seattle would be Central Cascadia.
I didn't understand the blinking greens at first, and I still don't see the point. We have intersections like that back home, and they uh, just stay steady green until someone wants to cross.
The verticality is something else though. Like going to the EB games on Cambie then going to Winners, which is over the top of it, then down the street is a Canadian Tire that sits on top of a Save On, and then I go to No Frills and it has it's parking lot on it's roof.. the city is very vertical and space-concious. Meanwhile, back home, every business has like a half block worth of parking lot to itself, and only the super mega store in the region has multiple floors.
The verticality is something else though. Like going to the EB games on Cambie then going to Winners, which is over the top of it, then down the street is a Canadian Tire that sits on top of a Save On, and then I go to No Frills and it has it's parking lot on it's roof.. the city is very vertical and space-concious. Meanwhile, back home, every business has like a half block worth of parking lot to itself, and only the super mega store in the region has multiple floors.
distantmantra
Member
That's because Omaha is the land of sprawl and strip malls. Vancouver doesn't have that luxury due to the mountains and the water, so they've had to build upward. We're starting to run into that problem in Seattle. My nearest Best Buy has a two-story Target on top of it.
distantmantra
Member
We've had really light drizzle down in Seattle, so get ready for it.
Yeah, I forsee a land crunch in the not too far future. I wanted to actually start a business once in a certain part of town (it needed to be there to work) and literally all the land is spoken for. Only big open spots are outside the city limits.
Parking lots on top of the store itself (or below it like a garage) just seems like it'd make sense in the first place. You can make your store bigger to store more items at once while serving the same amount of car traffic.
lalalalalala can't hear you lalalalalala
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Finally. Been missing the rain.
distantmantra
Member
We need it really bad. I've been watering my yard to keep it alive, but man, it looks horrible.
You mean the ones to turn left?
If we didn't have them, we might only get 1 or 2 cars through per light change.
Separate green arrows for left turns that activate for about 15 seconds before the normal greens.
The blinking green-normal lights afiak in Vancouver are to indicate intersections where a pedestrian can potentially trigger a red so they can cross, or the other direction just has stop signs. In our case here, they just stay steady green until someone hits the button to cross, and go to flashing yellows very late at night.
I was told this:
When a light turns green it blinks. It will never not be green so long as it's blinking. When it stops blinking, that means someone has pushed the button at the intersection indicating they want to cross. The light will remain green and not blinking for a certain period of time. After, it will turn yellow then red.
To me, this encourages traffic to flow/behave a certain way. This also affects how people, pedestrians specifically, route themselves to where they need to go. Makes the area flow much better and seems to, from my limited time there, keep things moving quite nicely (which I think is also important since there there is no highway to help traffic flow easily).
Coldest day up at SFU Burnaby in a while. Maybe I'll get to start wearing sweaters soon.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Yo Vancouverites, I'm breezing in for a holiday next month, and looking for any geeky stuff to do/visit that comes recommended? Missus used to live there so I'm getting the tour of everything else but WHAT ABOUT MY AMUSEMENT, EH? I would assume all your arcades are mostly dead like here though.
Honestly, we don't really have that many hipsters. Toronto's Queen street west is full of hipsters. Our main street or commercial is just like... young people on bikes.
IndieJones
Member
What if we live in Langley...?
You are either a gang member or a fat chick that hangs at Gabbys.
MisterNugNug
Member
The one at Northgate? What up Neighbor!
distantmantra
Member
I'm in Greenlake, but yep, that's the one I'm talking about.
Hell, they even closed the Book Off downtown. Broke my heart when I found that out.
IndieJones
Member
I could also be a bro at China Beach.
CHQ located inside Metrotown mall always has people.
Haha, I knew which one you were talking about and live in Vancouver.
oh man Gabbys sucks so much. I can't stand that place. (lived in langley for a year).
ya'll know the rain is going to come soon. Just a few more weeks.
besides chq, there's espot in richmond, where you can try wii-u killer app Tank! Tank! Tank! also has lots of pool tables, populated by asian people
if you're around for halloween, you could check out playland's fright nights.
HurricaneJesus
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Hey I went to the Vancouver Aquarium last night for an adults only night, and got to watch "The Great Salmon Run" in 4D! It was fucking awesome! Highly recommended. There are tons of cool things to see there. They even had different varieties of jellyfish to see....they were so amazing to see up close in a clear tank......mesmerising. The only shitty thing is that I thought they wouldn't want people to bring cameras, so I didn't, but I could have! Fuuuuuuu! Next time for sure.