Neighbourhoods recommendations (condo, low crime, neighbourhood)

[ronbarak]

I may relocate and start working in downtown Vancouver.
As a current Vancouver metropolitan resident, can you recommend neighbourhoods with reasonable housing (rent) prices containing:
• Easy access to the SkyTrain
• Access to other public transportation
• Low crime
• Nice to have:
o Access to fresh produce market(s)
o Access to a shopping-centre containing a hardware store and a supermarket.
o Bicycles lanes and other sport facilities
o Access to a public library

[Zoisite]

To find out which neighbourhoods have easiest or closest access to skytrains you can take a look at the skytrain maps at this link: https://www.translink.ca/en/Schedule...stem-Maps.aspx

As to the rest of your criteria, with the exception of the very wealthiest upper crust neighbourhoods in Vancouver (and fortunately there are not many of those) all other ordinary neighbourhoods have easy access to all of the amenities you asked about and would meet with your criteria. If you were to move into a wealthy neighbourhood you'd have to travel out of that neighbourhood and into other ordinary neighbourhoods to access the amenities you're looking for.

I'm not addressing your enquiry about areas with "reasonable housing (rent) prices" since you have not stated what is a reasonable price range for you and I don't make guesses about what might be reasonable for strangers. One person's reasonable can be another person's deplorable.


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[thedwightguy]

I think you should visit Vancouver first. ALL the communities for miles and miles have what you'd like, except for immediate Skytrain access which pretty much poops out by the edge of Coquitlam and Surrey, and the Richmond airport. As a downtown worker you don't identify your industry. Unless you're new age tech or government (ka-ching!!) the money made is not comparable to the housing and food costs. And this has been building for decades in the wrong direction.

I have several inlaws/outlaws in the downtown Van. core, but they're either condo owners already no matter what they do for monthly bills, and one is a fast track law partner, and my one cousins' movie/model career is being underwritten by dear old dad!!