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Heck, I'd go so far to say that Vancouver is the Canadian equivalent of LA County and San Francisco, but overall. Vancouver is to San Francisco what the Lions Gate is to the Golden Gate. Theoretically the same yet completely and utterly incomparable.
How anybody can compare Vancouver to San Francisco or Los Angeles County is beyond me. Same goes for trying to compare BC to California. The only similarity is they are on the West coast. The climates are entirely different, the demographics are much different. There simply is no comparison. Just accept the fact that they are different cities located in different countries.
There is no comparison between Calgary and Houston for the same reason. The only thing they have in common is oil.
Why do so many of you want to keep trying to compare Canadian cities with US cities? Each place is unique in its own way and we should appreciate the differences.
Why do so many of you want to keep trying to compare Canadian cities with US cities? Each place is unique in its own way and we should appreciate the differences.
Because thats the topic, and while the weather is not going to be similar there are many other aspects to cities than just the weather that might make an American city similar in some respects to a Canadian city.
How anybody can compare Vancouver to San Francisco or Los Angeles County is beyond me. Same goes for trying to compare BC to California. The only similarity is they are on the West coast. The climates are entirely different, the demographics are much different. There simply is no comparison. Just accept the fact that they are different cities located in different countries.
There is no comparison between Calgary and Houston for the same reason. The only thing they have in common is oil.
Why do so many of you want to keep trying to compare Canadian cities with US cities? Each place is unique in its own way and we should appreciate the differences.
Because that's what the thread is about?
Obviously there's not climatic or cultural equivalent of California(or most of the US) in Canada--people are just having fun with broad comparisons based on several factors like the general situation of a city.
How anybody can compare Vancouver to San Francisco or Los Angeles County is beyond me. Same goes for trying to compare BC to California. The only similarity is they are on the West coast. The climates are entirely different, the demographics are much different. There simply is no comparison. Just accept the fact that they are different cities located in different countries.
There is no comparison between Calgary and Houston for the same reason. The only thing they have in common is oil.
Why do so many of you want to keep trying to compare Canadian cities with US cities? Each place is unique in its own way and we should appreciate the differences.
"com·pare
kəmˈper/
verb
gerund or present participle: comparing
1.
estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between."
As in the phrase " Comparing apples and oranges ".
I disagree with all these Vancouver - San Francisco comparisons. Vancouver isn't artsy nor is it anything close to being 'alternative'. It's really more just lululemon. I'd pair Montreal with SF, and even Toronto before I would even consider Vancouver.
I disagree with all these Vancouver - San Francisco comparisons. Vancouver isn't artsy nor is it anything close to being 'alternative'. It's really more just lululemon. I'd pair Montreal with SF, and even Toronto before I would even consider Vancouver.
You are really only talking about a couple of neighbourhoods in Vancouver that I would call " lululemon ".
Kits and Yaletown. South Main, the West End, Commercial Drive, Strathcona etc all have a totally different vibe.
I disagree with all these Vancouver - San Francisco comparisons. Vancouver isn't artsy nor is it anything close to being 'alternative'. It's really more just lululemon. I'd pair Montreal with SF, and even Toronto before I would even consider Vancouver.
I agree, the vibe and look of SFC and Vancouver are very different. Even more so when you take the surrounding communities into consideration.
I disagree with all these Vancouver - San Francisco comparisons. Vancouver isn't artsy nor is it anything close to being 'alternative'. It's really more just lululemon. I'd pair Montreal with SF, and even Toronto before I would even consider Vancouver.
This is quite true about Vancouver not being very alternative and ''granola" but it's also true of SF which is very ''silver spoon'' now with high property wealth, high tech money and highbrow wine and foodie tastes.
The hippies have either grown up and wealthy, or moved elsewhere.
I disagree with all these Vancouver - San Francisco comparisons. Vancouver isn't artsy nor is it anything close to being 'alternative'. It's really more just lululemon. I'd pair Montreal with SF, and even Toronto before I would even consider Vancouver.
agree.
Montreal and Toronto are more similar to San Fran than Vancouver. All the Vancouver-SF comparison is extremely odd to me. Besides the landscape, they have very little in common. Even in terms of nature, San Fran is famous for being hilly, Vancouver is not.
As outsiders, I don't think you guys are getting it. Since I live in Vancouver, and I have been to S.F. over 20 times perhaps I can shed some light on what Vancouver and S.F. have in common when comparing cities.
It is because of out of all the North American cities out there they are the two that have the MOST in common. Both are on ocean harbours ( although Vancouver's is protected by VI ), both have suspension bridges as part of the city skyline, both have mountains nearby, both have a strong Asian influence, both have downtowns on peninsula's, both share a gold rush past.
Perhaps you have to be from Vancouver to understand this, but the atmosphere sometimes in both cities is very close. I have been walking down a street in S.F. and felt I could of been in Vancouver. I have NEVER felt that in any other city.
Is it exactly the same? Of course not and the differences probably out weight the similarities, but it is the only city in North American that catches any of the vibes of Vancouver and vice versa.
Regardless what easterners think. LOL
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