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As for the quality of life thing: the biggest point against Boston is usually cost of living, but I’ve heard that Vancouver is just as bad or worse.
Vancouver is worse as the jobs are generally lower paying than in Boston or the major US West Coast cities.
Same reason why I'd much prefer living in Seattle or Boston over Vancouver; there are just way more higher paying jobs in the former. Vancouver is great if you have a trust fund or a HK real estate shell company. It is a great city to visit though. You forget you're in North America. The scenery and nearby parks are fantastic. Whistler is amazing too.
Vancouver is worse as the jobs are generally lower paying than in Boston or the major US West Coast cities.
Same reason why I'd much prefer living in Seattle or Boston over Vancouver; there are just way more higher paying jobs in the former. Vancouver is great if you have a trust fund or a HK real estate shell company. It is a great city to visit though. You forget you're in North America. The scenery and nearby parks are fantastic. Whistler is amazing too.
There are a lot of good paying jobs in Vancouver, this view that it's not good for jobs is severely outdated.
Standard of living for the average worker is probably fairly comparable between Seattle/Boston and Vancouver with a slight nod to Seattle/Boston, but this is only factoring material wealth. Life overall is more comfortable in Vancouver than any American city and indeed most cities in the world.
While more international (?), Vancouver is in no way more diverse than Boston. I’d argue against the quality of life bit too, but that’s more subjective.
Hey! I can see my old house in that picture (pretty clearly in the foreground). My new place is in that frame too, but it's so far in the distance that I can't make it out individually.
A little dated even there. 28-29% of Boston is foreign born now, 48% of the city is foreign born or there parents were foreign born. Sprinkle in the undocumented immigrants and it’s well over half the city.
And from a much wider range of countries/continents than Vancouver. Add to this certain cities near Boston are just as it even more immigrant heave (Chelsea Malden Lynn Everett Quincy)
A little dated even there. 28-29% of Boston is foreign born now, 48% of the city is foreign born or there parents were foreign born. Sprinkle in the undocumented immigrants and it’s well over half the city.
And from a much wider range of countries/continents than Vancouver. Add to this certain cities near Boston are just as it even more immigrant heave (Chelsea Malden Lynn Everett Quincy)
Vancouver is still higher. Boston 29 percent 1st generation, compared to 42.5 percent in Vancouver...and 60 percent in the suburb of Richmond.
2nd generation I can't find stats for Vancouver, but honestly, 2nd generation are not immigrants or foreign born.
As for a much wider range...different, but wider? Not sure about that.
Far wider.
Bostons top country of immigrant origins are
China
Dominican Rpeublic
Haiti
Brazil
Cape Verde
Colombia
El Salvadaor
Vietnam
Trinidad
Jamaica
with small but growing Somalian, Honduran, Mexican, Ugandan, Nigerian, Portuguese, populations and the largest Moroccan population per capita in the US.
Nevermind the established more Puerto Rican, Barbadian Armenian, Greek, Russian Jew, and Albanian populations...
There are 110 countries of origin from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe represented in Boston Public Schools and 75+ different languages spoken. That's with just 51,000 students. Far more countries and continents represented in a meaningful way.
Vancouver is really just relatively wealthy Asians. Not all that "diverse"
2nd generation counts for the purposes of diversity and in general, they just retain far more cultural knowledge and ties to their parent's homeland than a 3rd generation individual. It's not a cut-and-dry thing...Especially people who were born in the US go back to Jamaica or Cape Verde and then come back to Boston-which is very common.
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