Nonsense. As any non white trash Vancouverite will tell you who has traveled outside of Vancouver and into a large city, the transit structure is very poor, expensive, inefficient with long waits. Crime the lowest? Rubbish. A few years ago, one of nearby suburbs was the North American capital for several years running for Car thefts. We have gang style shootings and street racers. Sure, we have a nice backdrop with the pristine mountains and dirty oceans and filthy Fraser River but we have a very poor nightlife and entertainment with many homeless.

All we have to look forward to in the end of summer is the local carnival/fare called the PNE. We have Whistler, where young adults go to drink alcohol and create problems in the summer months. Whistler is now the site of the Olympics which is a 2 hour drive away on one of the most deadliest highways in the world. We do have fair medical facilities but long waits in hospitals because of overcrowding. It is very difficult to find a doctor. Many doctors are overworked, greedy, and not taking new patients. Walk-in clinics are terribly busy.

We have homeless people all over the place. The city is doing nothing to help them or help them get off the streets. We don't have shelters for these unfortunate people. Recently tourists to the city were surprised how many homeless they seen as mentioned in several newspaper articles.

One of the biggest complaints that tourists and Vancouverites comment about is the lack of entertainment and the prices of dining. Vancouver is very very boring. The prices in our restaurants are comparable to New York and we are definitely not a world class city, like New York in any way.

Vancouver may be the most "livable" but it certainly is one of the most dullest and boring of any city it's comparable size in North America.

With this kind of [false] advertising for the city, the world will think that Vancouver is almost picture perfect when it is not, it is far from it. We need to take a lesson from other cities in the world, like New York to see what makes a city truly world class and livable, but unfortunately the business community disagree because they realize how how quickly it is to make money in Vancouver, typically through real estate transactions. Our politicians like the Mayor of Vancouver, Sam Sullivan have big egos that won't allow it and improvements or addressing concerns of the working class. Just google "Sam's Strike" and Vancouver.

Vancouver a livable city? Yes, but the most livable? Well, only if you use a skewed rating system with limited research like the one recently used by EIU

You are an idiot. Transit is for poor people. If you have a good transit system, you have a lot of broke ass low income morons roaming your streets.

I dont take the loser cruiser, I know how it works, idiot

Good for you.

Another big waste of time convincing only Van haters to hate, and Van lovers to love. As if 2 million people are going to pack up and move, op. Stop being jealous. Go live wherever you want to live and enjoy it. We don't care. We're staying, and we love it.

Have yu ever been to Paris" I do not think all the poor take metro .You are an idiot, and so is Gordon, and Sam.

cant take criticism qwerty is here, 2 million( more like 650) , do you think burnaby is vancouver? its not, and neither is richmond , poco etc do you think maple ridge is vancouver? it isnt.

you havent really lived anywhere else so your POV isnt really one to take

Calvin using several aliases is a big scum of the earth.

He keeps on forgetting that Vancouver is the most livability city for five year in a row. He must have sh!t for brains, because he keeps on forgetting.
The Economist Intelligence Unit's livability shows Vancouver, Canada as the most livable city in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Most_Livable_Cities.
A handful of new studies has given glowing reviews to Vancouver's quality of life, ranking it among the top cities in the world in which to live.

The second annual MasterCard Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index ranks Vancouver as the world's "most livable city."
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sto...f5-3a42688d5630

Then he pretends to be EX-British Intelligence. Actually he should be called Not-British Non-Intelligence. When I posed a question that all people in Britain knows what institution is celebrating it 125 year, the stupid idiot did not know. The answer is posted on many TV show, Radio shows, newspaper, that Footlight at Cambridge University. It proves that he is such an idiot for pretending to be British. He does not know what Footlight is? It does come from Cambridge, one of the most famous University in London. What buffoon! What a moron! What an arsehole!

canada sucks

The SkyTrain is a two-line urban mass transit system in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It uses Bombardier's Advanced Rapid Transit technology, with fully automated trains running principally on elevated tracks (hence the name). There have been no derailments or collisions in its history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Skytrain
The SkyTrain technology has been adopted in Beijing China for the 2008 Summer Olympics
http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/beijing-metro/

Let see how bad mass transportation in the U.S. Pretty bad.
Problem is, we don't have nearly enough public transportation. Even more absurdly, right now when they're needed the most, public transportation systems across the land are cutting back on services. Why? Because their costs are rising -- their budgets are strained by the same sky-high fuel prices that are forcing people out of their cars -- and because their revenues are dropping. Public transit systems are financed largely through sales tax revenues, which are declining as consumers spend less.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display...public_transit/

This idiot advocated light rail transit system. There has been a lot of accidents that have crippled light rail transit system. Here is an example. Dallas DART in a few months has accidents with traffic vehicles.
Seven hurt in DART bus accident
10:04 AM CDT on Friday, June 20, 2008
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa...x.202586ee.html

A pickup collided with a northbound DART train near the West End station in downtown Dallas, causing delays for commuters Wednesday morning.

DART spokesman Morgan Lyons said the accident was reported about 7:15 a.m. and caused delays of up to 30 minutes. DART established a train shuttle to move passengers between the Pearl and West End stations.


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...T.391de535.html

Same with Melbourne with their rail system.
Major traffic and rail delays are expected this evening due to an earlier accident in which a train clipped a truck at a level crossing in Dandenong South.

The South Gippsland Highway was closed earlier at the Princes Highway intersection but has now reopened.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/btr...3468495860.html

Every month, I always hear about some motor vehicle colliding with a surface rail in Melbourne or in Dallas causing delays for commuters. It has gotten so bad in Melbourne, they have public commercial on TV saying if the gate is down, don't cross, period. I do like the pedestrian gate closing on the sidewalk when a surface rail comes along.

And don't think it happens only in Dallas or Melbourne, there are problems in other cities.

Boston station WCVB reports that the engineer of the MBTA's No. 917 train on the Providence/Stoughton line saw a boxcar rolling on the tracks toward them, stopped the train and ran into the first passenger car shouting to people to brace themselves for the collision

Approximately 50 passengers and crew received minor injuries, and about 10 people were taken to area hospitals, a spokesman for the MBTA said. About 100 passengers were on board the train at the time of the crash. The train left Boston's South Station at 4:40 p.m.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/...ter_rail_crash/

Talk about service. Medical care is pretty bad in the U.S. compared to Canada as pointed out by the movie Sicko. Here are the facts in Sicko if you would have cared to read up on it.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/checkup/

Nightlife and culture. Is Calvin too idiot, ugly, and stupid to be invited to any night club or party and maybe catching a glimpse of celebrities.
It must be because he is too f*cking stupid.

Vancouver film production on the money
North America's third-largest movie centre finally lands top-flight funding
Marke Andrews, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, April 10, 2008

For years, Vancouver has ranked as the third-largest film and television production centre in North America, trailing only Los Angeles and New York. But that standing wasn't always reflected in the money parcelled out by Canadian public and private funding bodies, which have traditionally leaned toward Central Canada.

That all changed this week.

British Columbia has four of the 10 English-language projects that received funding, announced this week, from Telefilm Canada's Canada Feature Film Fund. The five features from the Western Region, which includes one Manitoba project, received a total of $6.65 million from the federal government's cultural agency.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/bu...27-3e02cceb3e5a

Calvin must love Los Angeles. It is sure affordable because of the record number of foreclosure. Why isn't anyone buying?
L.A. foreclosure chart looking "like a ski jump"

News item from Bloomberg News: "New foreclosures almost quadrupled in Los Angeles and doubled in Miami in the second quarter, with as much as $5 billion worth of loans going bad in L.A. alone, the onine real estate data company PropertyShark.com reported."

More: "The number of homes scheduled for auction in Los Angeles rose 14,505 compared with 3,797 in the same period a year earlier, PropertyShark said... 'The foreclosure chart for Los Angeles is unfortunately starting to look like a ski jump,' Adina Dumitru, a member of PropertyShark's foreclosure products team, said in the statement."

More evidence the foreclosure story continues to be a regional one: The foreclosure rate per houshold in Los Angeles is seven times higher than Seattle, and 15 times higher than New York City, according to PropertyShark's analysis.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/200...oreclosure.html

canada sucks

Vancouver used to be the best place on earth.
When you could still see the mountains...

You could sit in Denny's on Brodway,
or in a cafe on 4th Ave, and have a awe-inspiring
view of the mountains.

Now, its an overdeveloped, overpriced, overpopulated, slum.
You can't see the mountains anymore.

You might as well
be living in Detroit, you can pick up a nice house there for
$20,000.

The downfall of Vancouver began with Expo 86.
The 2010 Olympics, will finish the job.
It is a city with no economic foundation.

A city populated by rich foreigners and a dwindling population
of well-meaning Canadian-born left leaning academics and aging hippies.

A sevice city, where soon, there will be no one left
to service the demanding ,non producing, elitist population.

I lived in Vancouver, and loved it at the time.
It's not the same now, and it never will be again.

Once again, canada sucks

Once again stupid idiot KI suck rotten eggs through his anus

Wow! you can do that? that's interesting... mind showing me the trick? Once again, canada + canucks suck.

Once again stupid idiot KI suck rotten eggs through his anus because KI has sh1t for brains.

yup. that pretty much describes the majority of the 'happy' vancouverites posting here with minimal travel experience.

There Calvin goes again, coming out with untruths because he is a total sh!thead.
For your information sh1thead Calvin, Canadian tourist are the rated the best in the world.



THE WORLD'S BEST TOURISTS

1. Japanese
2. British/Germans
3. Canadians
4. Swiss
5. Dutch
6. Australians/Swedes
7. Belgians
8. Norwegians
9. Austrians/Danes/ Finnish
10. New Zealanders


Aussie tourists among the world's best
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...896-662,00.html

I love my country, Canada and it makes me happy to hear we are number one when it comes to enviromental vunerability. What makes me sad is how vunerable we are to decisons are politicians make such as a gas tax for a country that does not have much to worry about compared to the rest of the world. So why the tax? Another heartbreaker is they are planning on more drilling in the tar sands to help keep Bush's gas, guzzling carbon fuming war monster responsible for high prices. Who is winning hard to tell unless your counting dead soilders then there are no winners

I agree with you there are many beautiful places to live in the world and its always been a dream to visit all those marvelous countires. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder who usually ends up living with family and friends while visiting one of the many beautiful places in this wonderful planet.

I've been around the world and have met people all over

Vancouver is by no means a major city

Yet

The city is recognized around the world!

Vancouver cannot be compared to any other city in the world

It is that Beautiful

Don't hate Vancouver for being so beautiful

Be happy to have had the chance to visit