Yeah, Vancouver still rocks!
 

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5533882.html

"More than any North American city, Vancouver has intentionally merged public health with city planning. The goal is not just to promote recreation (there are plenty of bike trails and tennis courts), but to design physical activity into the daily routine, to build a city so compelling that people will leave their cars at home, strap on a backpack and take up walking as their primary mode of travel.

The result is a cityscape that's breathtaking in its beauty and impressive in its retail vitality. Thick layers of trees and flowers have invaded the downtown district. Strips of freshly trimmed green grass line many downtown sidewalks. Hundreds of small shops and restaurants have sprouted among the ever-expanding supply of townhouses and high-rise condos. You can take a beautiful and pleasant walk to fetch almost anything you need, so why drive?"

There are more words to it than that, but I don't want to tax anyone's brain cells too much. ;)

Suffice it to say that Vancouver is still the only city I want to live in. :)

That's funny. I was just reading this article earlier: Emigrating To Canada . I would so love to live in Vancouver. But I am American, and I suppose I could live in Vancouver according to this article. But there would be a lot to go through. I figure, why not turn the tables, so many Canadians come live in the USA and hardly any of us move up there in comparision. It's a beautiful city. I've talked to Itchy about Vancouver before. Where Itchy.

- Walrus

Sighhh yes. Vancouver rocks :thumbsup

Anyone who hasn't visited is missing out.

Vancouver is alright, the city it's self is nice. Violence is increasing quickly though and Vancouver will closely resemble a major US city in that respect soon.

Public transport, although it doesn't matter to me, is terrible here. I feel sorry for anyone relying on it to get around.

I still prefer the island any day. Less gangs, less crowd.

The Indo Canadian violence is amazing. If you read the RCMP Media Relations page, every other violent crime can be attributed to a "group of Indo Canadian Males".

Here's a clip from the KatKam.ca a few minutes ago. Looks like the Pride Parade is on today!

http://www.elli-nude.com/uploads/Vancouver-July31.jpg

The violence isn't so bad. I still feel safe walking alone in most of the city. Even Main and Hastings is fine during the day. I was down there for a friend's gig a few nights ago and the four of us girls felt fine walking down Columbia to the ATM machine. There were cops EVERYWHERE, just saying hi to the homeless people and keeping a presence.

but it still has an amazing over abundance of fuckign crackheads, bums, and other undesireables flooding thier streets.

most of americans aren't educated.

immigrating not emigrating.

em·i·grate ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-grt)
intr.v. em·i·grat·ed, em·i·grat·ing, em·i·grates
To leave one country or region to settle in another. See Usage Note at migrate.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=emigrating

Meh, if you stay out of Surrey and watch yourself at some of the clubs things are fine :) I personally loved living downtown, much nicer than Burnaby where I lived before. Not much violence/crime in the west end, and no need for public transport as everything is within 5-10 minutes ;)

There's a stabbing or shooting pretty much every weekend at downtown clubs now so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Vancouver has always rocked just like you Elli. How about a fan sign Elli?

Never been there before.

shit yes Vancouver rocks, now that hockey is back..
and i'm leaving to Australia for 6 months.. fuck bad timing.

Yah Vancouver is a nice place to go and visit.
My wife and I were there last year but most impressed me were the huge trees you had in Stanley park.
Great place :)

how about the collection of crack needles downtown? quite nice hey?

Some times I gather up the local kids and bring them down there and tell them it's like easter only they might end up with aids/crack addiction.
It's funny to me.

Fuzebox doesn't hang out those type of clubs.

Ummmm...

Hastings.

Enough said.

haha
enough said?
that's like saying "compton" now america sucks...

But they're FREE needles!

heh thanks, but I don't have time for fan signs today.

I think Vancouver is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there.

Vancouver voted best island to visit

CanWest News Service


Saturday, July 16, 2005

Vancouver Island is the best island to visit in North America, according to the latest Travel + Leisure magazine readers' 10th-annual survey.

The island ranked sixth world-wide in the survey by what's arguably the top U.S. consumer travel magazine. The good news for Vancouver Island tourism doesn't stop there. The only three Canadian hotels on the survey's top 100 worldwide are from the island.

The survey's impact has been felt even before the August issue hits the stands, according to Deirdre Campbell of Tartan Communications, a Victoria public relations firm specializing in the travel industry. The phone has been ringing at the Malahat's Aerie Resort since it was among those featured in a preview of the awards earlier this week on NBC's Today Show.

"People are calling, and saying 'where's Vancouver Island?' and "how do I get there?' " said Ms. Campbell, who has The Aerie as a client.

"We truly couldn't afford to buy this advertising," said Tourism Victoria's Melissa McLean even though Victoria, at ninth spot, lags four behind Vancouver as a North American destination.

"It's very significant because the U.S. market is on decline, so any exposure we get is wonderful," Ms. Campbell said.

Travel + Leisure subscribers rated islands on natural attractions, activities and sights, restaurants and food, people, and value. They evaluated hotels on rooms and facilities, location, service, restaurants and food, and value.

? National Post 2005

Awesome article, I've been considering moving up to Canada as of late. Just got in touch with an immigration lawyer in Victoria, where I would like to end up. Take the $ that the sites make and open a B&B or small hotel. yep.

Ummmm...

If you're walking down Hastings at night, either you're looking for drugs or hookers :2 cents:

Enough said.

You are not the only one, although that is not obvious from some of the stupid comments in this thread like "Hastings St. - nough said..." Wow, how witty you must be in your mind.



Vancouver No. 2 in world
Ties with Vienna in quality-of-life survey of 215 major world cities

Drew Hasselback
Financial Post
Monday, March 14, 2005

Vancouver's livability puts it in the top rank of North American cities; four other Canadian cities make it into the top 10.

For the third year in a row, Vancouver has been ranked as the city with the second-best quality of life in the world.

According to a survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Vancouver ties Vienna for second place, behind top ranked Geneva and Zurich.

The annual survey grades 215 cities based on 39 criteria, including safety, public services, schools, climate and recreation.

Mercer prepares the survey for governments, companies and organizations looking to place employees on international assignments.

Vancouver is the top-ranked North American city, but the four other Canadian cities included in the survey, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Calgary, also made the top 10.

Vancouver is no stranger to the top ranks of the survey. It placed second both last year and in 2003, third in 2002, and ranked first in 2001 and 2000.

The survey uses New York City as a base case, assigning it a grade of 100. Because many cities receive the same numerical grade, tie scores are common. The 215 cities included in this year's survey are distributed to 109 ranks. New York City placed 13th.

The two Swiss cities tied for first place with grades of 106.5, edging out second place Vancouver and Vienna, which each scored 106.

The other Canadian cities weren't far behind, with Toronto in seventh spot with a score of 103.5, Ottawa ranking eighth at 103, Montreal in ninth at 102.5, and Calgary ranking tenth at 102.

The only other North American cities to crack the top 10 were Honolulu and San Francisco, which joined Calgary in the tenth position.

Baghdad was deemed the world's worst for quality of life, scoring a paltry 14.5 to capture 109th place.

Luxembourg won top honours in a special ranking of cities based on the quality of their personal safety and security. All five Canadian cities included in the survey tied for sixth in the safety list, making them the only North American cities in the top 10 of that category.

The safety rankings are based on internal stability, crime rates, the frequency of terrorist attacks, the quality of law enforcement, and the degree of personal freedoms.

? National Post 2005

What he said.

Indo-canadian friend of mine was shot to death here in Vic a couple years ago.

Vancouver was once extremely beautiful and safe. It simply isn't like that anymore- entirely too much violence and drugs, imo

It still has it's problems but when the weather is nice,it is one of the nicest places anywhere..I love it here

According to this: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050721/d050721a.htm

Vancouver had 2.6 homicides per 100,000 people

Which makes it safer than the safest American city (considering murder rates) according to this: http://www.citymayors.com/society/uscities_safest.html

And from the Mercer study I quoted above:

Luxembourg won top honours in a special ranking of cities based on the quality of their personal safety and security. All five Canadian cities included in the survey tied for sixth in the safety list, making them the only North American cities in the top 10 of that category.

The safety rankings are based on internal stability, crime rates, the frequency of terrorist attacks, the quality of law enforcement, and the degree of personal freedoms.


So Vancouver has a higher quality of personal safety than any American city.

Your pretty brave going down there are night but I guess there are just mostly hookers.

I've been to compton, have you? It is nothing like Hastings Street.

Nothing in North America is like Hastings.

When I grew up in the 80's there were just as many stabbings & shootings( if not more) in the club scene; they just didn't get reported by the media as much as they are now. If you look at the stats; violent crime is on a downward trend. Don't fall for all the media-hype BS like the rest of the sheep :winkwink:

Blow it out your ass.

I've watched first hand 1999 to 2003 it steadily decline.

Vancouver is an awesome place to live, just like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Philadelphia, Toronto, whatever.

Get over yourself.

Most of your base belong to us.

Boy did you make yourself look like a total moron with that post.

It always has to turn personal for you people, doesn't it? Sheesh...

Well, I'm going to go out and enjoy some sun while it's not so hot out. Have a good evening!

Personally, I love Vancouver. I hope cities like this one still flourished on other sides of the world.

A couple of pics from last night's fireworks show in English Bay, from my front door.

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I was on the bigger one on the left..was an awesome night for the fireworks

A couple of pics from this afternoon's Pride Parade from my front door.


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http://www.adultcontentzone.com/0655.JPG

Wow, that's so cool. How much did it cost to hang out on that?

There were just under 500,000 people that came out for the fireworks last night and around 100,000 today for the parade and there was NO STABBINGS, NO GANG HITS and plenty of single women walking around semi naked without any harrasment.

The stats and my eyes don't lie, Vancouver is amongst the cleanest safest cities in the world. We have a problem with excessive amounts of drug addicts that have made their way to Vancouver because they can live on the streets year round because of the warm climate here... and this problem centred around Hastings Street is improving and they are building more and more treatment and low cost housing places there...and already you can see a huge improvement.

Don't indict a whole city as shit because of one sad side to it. To reduce my city to a stupid sound bite about Hastings is pathetic.

Some nice pics in this thread

One night a Voda an angry drunken hindu attacked the bouncers with the metal bar that holds the ropes in the lineup, that's about the closest I've seen to club violence...

I know it happens all the time, but isn't it gang/drug related and between people that know each other?

I've never felt unsafe downtown at night, as opposed to some areas of Surrey etc...

I think Vancouver is a nice place. Both on the security and habitability.
Nice pics Hershie..

sounds like it

Conde Nast Traveller magazine story:

Vancouver - #1 City in the Americas

The reader?s of Condé Nast are among the savviest travellers on the globe. Their opinions are formed from years of experience travelling to cities around the world, from Albuquerque to Zurich. So that makes their decision to name Vancouver the best city in the Americas all the more satisfying. Editors of the seminal travel magazine tabulated its readers 30,000 votes, and Vancouver beat out rivals like Mexico City, Toronto and San Jose, Costa Rico.

From http://vancouver.com/whattoexpect/review/index.htm

November 2003 Maxim Magazine

Maxim Magazine votes Vancouver as one of the top 5 bachelor party cities.