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Thanks again to all that development in 2010 around the Winter Olympics, Downtown and the West End are home to a lot of shiny new high-rise buildings. The West End, Downtown, and across the Granville Bridge to the south, Fairview, are some of the city’s most walkable neighborhoods – Kitsilano is nice too. Vancouver has a substantial gay community (primarily in the West End) and has a huge gay pride parade every year.

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The prestigious Emily Carr University of Art and Design is located on Granville Island and the city is full of places to experience First Nations art, the Bill Reid Foundation and the Museum of Anthropology on the UBC campus are two of the best.ĭuring the 1980s the city had an influx of Hong Kong Chinese – about 30% of the metropolitan population is of Chinese descent and there’s a substantial South Asian population here too – Vietnamese, Indian, Indonesian, and Cambodian.

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Dozens of movies and TV shows are made here – parts of the Twilight empire, Battlestar Gallactica, and lots of independent films too. Vancouver is a city of creatives, too – it’s sometimes referred to as Hollywood North. Vancouver is a university town – there are five here, the biggest being Simon Frasier and the University of British Columbia, both have stellar reputations as being among the best universities in the world.

If you choose Vancouver as your home, it’s best not to be afraid of a little rain. Some in the Pacific Northwest find the lack of sunshine during the rest of the year wearing – Seasonal Affective Disorder – can be an issue. There might be a week or two in August that could be classified as hot, but mostly the summers are very pleasant and because the city is far north, days are very long in June, July, and August. Vancouver has a temperate Pacific Northwest climate – snow is rare but not unheard of, rain is plentiful from November to March. This is Canada’s largest city in the West, and it’s a great place to live. The 2010 Olympics brought a lot of urban redevelopment to the city and exceptional public spaces were a big part of the plan. North and West there are mountains, snowcapped for much of the year, and there’s in-city big nature at Stanley Park, a beautiful forested peninsula with biking and hiking trails, a remarkable grouping of massive totem poles, and the Vancouver Aquarium. It’s surrounded by water – there’s the harbor, False Creek, English Bay, and the Georgia Straits to the West. Vancouver is a straight up gorgeous city.