the reason for me mainly is traffic , too many people and bang for your buck property.i grew up in coquitlam and now just moved to maple ridge to buy a affordable house (450K)… and i work in delta…, its just a gong show on the roads…. i would love to live in n.van.. and hopefully will one day…. but for what you get for half a million beans in vancouver…. i would way rather own a piece of land in the interior- kamploops or vernon.
north shore mass exit
I grew up in VERY rural England (A small hamlet of 13 houses) and although it took a long time to get used to city living, I couldn't live anywhere else in the world. That said, I don't think I could ever live Downtown, or anywhere in Vancouver, and I'm not sure I could live in North Van either. I like the laid back atmosphere of Port Moody, and I like that I am no more than half an hour from pretty much anywhere (traffic dependant) in the lower mainland. But, as I get older, maybe my values will change and I may find myself wanting to live elsewhere.
Everyone has different needs, and those needs will take them where they can be fulfilled I guess.
It comes down mostly to dollars and cents. We couldn't even qualify to buy a 500 sqft apt. in Vancouver, and yet we bought a 2000ft rancher on a 1/4 acre in Westbank for considerably less.
Trails are similar. Like Deep Cove, I have lots of water to play in. There's a paved shuttle road behind me. Locally there's 3 mountains to ride, and another ten within an hour. One really good bike park just up the valley. I ride back to my house between laps.
Plust the trails are buff, and even if they get torn up one person can resurface 200 feet of trail an hour.
Still, there's more churches than coffee shops here, and if your idea of a killer concert is the Blue Man Group, well….see you at the show.
We moved to East Van from Calgary and we think it's awesome living here. The traffic is no worse than Calgary…probably better in a lot of ways, people are rude everywhere..even small towns, the general atmosphere seems a lot more chill around here, the road riding bites (in my general vicinity) but the mountain biking is killer…I couldn't ride cool trails in Calgary - had to drive a minimum of 45mins-and then I was riding trails I'd ridden a hundred times, 3 ski areas under an hour drive a way, XC skiing closer that I've ever seen…Whistler, Squamish right there…I dunno…it's all about priorities and this works great for us.
I was in Rossland last weekend and the riding was fantastic! The town was really quiet - almost to a fault - even though it was the Sept long weekend, the town itself was very charming but I don't know if I could do it…I guess Trail is right there if a person needs some big city type amenities but I like the bright lights of the big city. The one thing I didn't like…we visited with friends that live there and man the town gossip was out of control.
I could see me going to the Kootenays. Great riding, great sking, some affordable housing options, no traffic per say. I have lived in the interior, and would like to move back, but housing has shot up there as well, just like every where else.
WTF, Over?
what i like most about the sunshine coast is how close we still are to the city. you can commute to vancouver by bike (i see a few riders doin it every monday morning). yet it still has a small town vibe. and seeing the ocean every morning, just can't beat it.
what i like most about the sunshine coast is how close we still are to the city. you can commute to vancouver by bike (i see a few riders doin it every monday morning). yet it still has a small town vibe. and seeing the ocean every morning, just can't beat it.
That does sound unbeatable.
Let me just say there are towns that are too small for me. Rossland would be one of 'em. I like the size of Kamloops, but any smaller and I would probably feel like I'm in a fish bowl.
I think more people would do it if there were quality jobs in their fields of work.
Yup. Most of the places we've looked, the job market seems to be "would you like fries with that?"
unless you're married to a doctor it can be pretty tough to find quality work outside the lower mainland.
it took us two years to figure it out and we're still pretty nervous about "making it" finacially.
Let me just say there are towns that are too small for me. Rossland would be one of 'em. I like the size of Kamloops, but any smaller and I would probably feel like I'm in a fish bowl.
my town is so small that I got job at 11:00, told my roomate at 1:30 and he said "ya I already heard"
just don't be an asshole and its all good
Gary J, good luck with the LBS. My parents live up there so we bring bikes when we visit and usually stop in at the store for something.
everybody's gotta find the place that feels right - there are really only a couple places outside of North Van where I might prefer to live.
Kinda of a tangent, what I think is kinda fuct is when people move like an hour away from work just to get a huge house. I don't mean families (although that could be debated), I mean like single people moving into 3-4 bedroom houses. Great, now you spend an extra 500 hours annually sitting in traffic spewing pollution just so you can have more 'stuff'. How about a Hummer too?
I live wherever my parents live.
Which is SE Vancouver and it's great.
Sober
everybody's gotta find the place that feels right - there are really only a couple places outside of North Van where I might prefer to live.
Kinda of a tangent, what I think is kinda fuct is when people move like an hour away from work just to get a huge house. I don't mean families (although that could be debated), I mean like single people moving into 3-4 bedroom houses. Great, now you spend an extra 500 hours annually sitting in traffic spewing pollution just so you can have more 'stuff'. How about a Hummer too?
exactly, I'm willing to live in a smaller place to only have a less than 5 minute commute to work and the ski lift in either direction…..I've been trying to figure out for about 10 years now how people can justify to themselves sitting in a car for more than 2 hours a day…..bleh
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