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Cities are not defined by nature. If you have to resort to saying something like this, there's not much of a city.
Downtown Vancouver (although quite small in area size & population) is one of North America's most walkable cities with a density rate similar to that of San Francisco, Boston & Manhattan. It is very much a city, it just happens to be surrounded by lush forests & beaches.
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Vancouver is a beautiful city and has a lot to offer but for the normal working person it's the place where dreams die.
Years ago Vancouver was Canada's fun, quirky. non-conformist refuge. The place you fled to after the divorce, to "find" yourself, to live an alternative lifestyle, a place where monetary gain was not the sole purpose of your life plan, and the place to go have fun at the beach for the summer. Vancouver didn't try to be anything but Vancouver and to hell with what the world thought.
Those days are long gone. More than any other city in the country, by a very wide margin, Vancouver desperately cares what everyone thinks of it. It has sterilized itself in order to get to the top of every ranking and to try to prop up it's inferiority complex by stating it "The Best Place on Earth" or "everybody wants to live here".
Vancouver has gone from quite a non-money oriented city to Canada's most money and conspicuous consumption city.
In less than a generation socially Vancouver has gone from Canada's San Francisco to Canada's L.A.
If you are wealthy Vancouver is the kind of place you will be content. Vancouver {which it's own City Hall came up with the expression "No Fun City"} has sold it's soul to the higher bidder and has become painfully pleasant.
If you are wealthy Vancouver is the kind of place you will be content.
I have to disagree on this again.
If I were wealthy, there are literally dozens of cities I would consider before Vancouver. And no, I won't be content with Vancouver - too small, too isolated, not enough fun. Why shouldn't I choose London, or Paris, or Munich, or Barcelona, or Melbourne?
Nature is really not a boasting right. Plenty of cities have great nature around them. Get over it already.
Honestly I don't think the nature defines any city.
Vancouver has the Pacific ocean, so do all the cities on that coast. Zurich is close to the Alps, so are Munich, Bern, Lyon, etc.
Like someone mentioned, if a city has to resort to using the nature to define itself, the city probably doesn't have much in itself.
Another completely ignorant statement. Downtown Vancouver is more walkable than Toronto. Like I have already stated, It is a dense urban core with plenty of shops, restaraunts & nightlife options. it's not NYC or London but it's pretty damn good for a city with a greater population of 2 million.
The difference between Vancouver & other cities with nature is it's close proximity to it. Stanley Park (aka huge forest with multiple large grass fields,biking & hiking trails + beaches) is locatedwithin the downtown city limits on the edges of Coal Harbour & The West End. Lets not forget all the beaches along Kitsilano & West Vancouver!
my point: in most other cities you need to drive at least 25 - 40 mins to experience the kind of outdoor options you find in the center of Vancouver.
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Downtown Vancouver (although quite small in area size & population) is one of North America's most walkable cities with a density rate similar to that of San Francisco, Boston & Manhattan. It is very much a city, it just happens to be surrounded by lush forests & beaches.
Another completely ignorant statement. Downtown Vancouver is more walkable than Toronto. Like I have already stated, It is a dense urban core with plenty of shops, restaraunts & nightlife options. it's not NYC or London but it's pretty damn good for a city with a greater population of 2 million.
