Quote: (11-21-2011 03:16 PM)mikeymike Wrote:
Living in Vancouver, I'd disagree with luckystar in that the city sucks, it's an amazing city just depends on what you're looking for. If you're wanting an active nightlife, city sucks....clubs close early, women aren't the hottest you'll find around, but good looking women and not loaded with fatties it's a fit city overall. They're not the easiest to pick up while just heading out on the town you'd have a lot more fun in Montreal with nightlife and women. If you're wanting hot weather year round you won't find it here. It's very expensive if you want to live anywhere near downtown, you could support yourself and live downtown but unless you're making good coin you're not going to have a lot of cash to play around with and doing anything is expensive from eating out to drinking, even pre-drinking before you head out, is far more than you'd find most places. What it does offer is awesome outdoor activities, world class ski/snowboarding less than 1.5 hours away and the smaller mountains are even closer. You can ski into the early spring and the rest of the year there's everything mountain biking, hiking, kayaking and every sport you can handle. If you're active you will not be bored and this is how you end up meeting people once you're outside of college here. Getting a job at the resorts is usually pretty easy and loads of the workers up on the mountains etc are from out of country so it gets pretty social up there. People aren't so much stuck up as wolf said but they don't go out of their way to be friendly, if you are social you'll find people receptive and you head out to a pub during hockey games try not having a good time with everyone around but smiles on the street and people going out of their way to say hello etc not gonna happen. You don't top best cities in the world to live without a reason but it's a place that you settle down in have a family in or if you love being active, not if you're young on a budget looking to have a great time partying meeting chicks unless you come for seasonal resort work... way more receptive cities and montreals the only one in Canada I'd recommend for that. Avoid Toronto shit hole of a city.
This. Although I would agree the people can be a bit stuck up when it comes to certain things. Unreasonable amounts of hipsters and people who shop at whole foods. It also seems like there is a divide between asian people and white/other race people, people will refer to certain clubs as asian clubs etc. Nothing racist just where they hangout I guess.
Like you said most places are pretty expensive to live in and doing things is also expensive but there is a lot to do. I don't think I'd come here strictly for partying. If you ski go to whistler and party with the ski-bums, just watch out for diseases.