nimblehuman: blairdobson: taobananaboat: The_Sponge:
2) IIRC, isn't there a smoking ban in Vancouver now?

There is a smoking ban, so in the head shops and cafes you can light up a spliff, but not a ciggy... It's weird.

I lived in Vancouver for 2 years. In the summer, it's paradise. In the winter, I dunno, I guess it depends on the person, but not seeing the sun for (what felt like) months on end was pretty damn depressing.

thats a whole lotta BS...
what cafes let you light up a spliff?
i would say zero.

you sir are either a liar or a buffoon.

They don't openly say you can puff a J, they just turn the other way.

The only time I was ever told to stop was when there was a police presence outside.

scientific progress goes boink: cheshirecatsmileyface: I've never been to Vancouver. I don't want to go. I'm sure it's downright fantastic, but my coworker is a Canadian from Vancouver and it's all he farking talks about. Constantly. He hates the fact that he had to move to the US, and Michigan in particular, because his wife got a great job here and she makes more money than he does and it's the worst thing to have ever happened to him and so he consoles himself by waxing poetically about Vancouver over and over and over again whenever possible and after a full year of this, I just don't farking care anymore, dude.

/rant off


... and spending a day at Lake Michigan doesn't shut him up? Or the fact that it costs ~80% less than Vancouver to live here comfortably?

I mean damn, Canada is awesome, but I just bought a nice house with land for a lower price than a 1-bedroom crap apartment in Vancouver.

/ Or Toronto, for that matter.
// Dunno about Calgary, haven't been there long enough.

I don't think in the 6 years he's lived here that he'd ever been to Lake Michigan, before I convinced him to go this summer

But otherwise, no. It doesn't matter that he's got a great job (where he obviously couldn't get a good enough one there), great health insurance, a nice neighborhood or an excellent school system for his 2 kids, or that he lives in a nice city in SE Michigan where the winters really aren't so bad as they are in the rest of the state, none of it. He's a miserable person most of the time and has few friends here.

He was also convinced last summer that Bush was going to suspend the elections and crown himself dictator and we were all going to be slaves of the state. srsly.

jehovahs witness protection: They aren't depressed. They're just stoned.

Nail head, meet hammer. If this blogger is so depressed maybe he should smoke less and get some exercise.

poisonedpawn78: Addis Ababa like

Addis Ababa sucked.... never been to Kabul, but it looks pretty depressing

taobananaboat: but not seeing the sun for (what felt like) months on end was pretty damn depressing

I used to deliver the Province (newspaper for the area) and I had to get the paper run completed before 6.30

So as a "kid" I saw a lot of Vancouver sunrises :-) kinda weird how it was mostly covered with cloud moments after and yet still presented itself as I rode home from the run.

The_Sponge: Dear Vancouver,

Please bring back Expo '86.

Sincerely,

The_Sponge

P.S. - Yes, I know that you'll have to rename it to Expo '09, or something like that.



Dear The_Sponge,

Expo '09 has been cancelled in favour of Winter Olympics 2010. We encourage you to visit next February.

Sincerely,

Vancouver

RaynDrahps: without the monoculture

hehehe well to be fair
when I was going to college it was a monoculture
Cantonese :-)

"Vancouver, come for the hot asian girls, stay for the ..... just go there, you'll see"
(quoted comment is not aimed at anyone in particular)

Raindogday: I think this thread set a new record for "Most People Commenting without Reading the Article."

Thank you!! I've never seen so many damn posts of know-it-alls who can't be bother to RTFA!!!

He was comparing is bland city to that of the stunning and efficient Vancouver. It's depressing because his city FAILS IN COMPARISON!!!

for the love of god why do you post based on a headline!!

/head assplodes!

Oh my god, so much fail in this thread

Please, Please, Please, Keep spreading the word that Vancouver is a rainy, hippy infested hell hole.

Thank you,

40below: Vancouver is dirty and full of hippies. I wish a big rain would come and wash all the filth off the streets.



/knows where you are coming from.

scientific progress goes boink: cheshirecatsmileyface: I've never been to Vancouver. I don't want to go. I'm sure it's downright fantastic, but my coworker is a Canadian from Vancouver and it's all he farking talks about. Constantly. He hates the fact that he had to move to the US, and Michigan in particular, because his wife got a great job here and she makes more money than he does and it's the worst thing to have ever happened to him and so he consoles himself by waxing poetically about Vancouver over and over and over again whenever possible and after a full year of this, I just don't farking care anymore, dude.

/rant off


... and spending a day at Lake Michigan doesn't shut him up? Or the fact that it costs ~80% less than Vancouver to live here comfortably?

I mean damn, Canada is awesome, but I just bought a nice house with land for a lower price than a 1-bedroom crap apartment in Vancouver.
/ Or Toronto, for that matter.
// Dunno about Calgary, haven't been there long enough.

I imagine you did. I just bought a second floor, 588 sqft. apartment for $245K. It's near a station of our mass transit train station, and it's a decent, concrete building. But yeah, real estate prices are absolutely insane here. For a 375 sqft studio apartment, in or near the downtown core, you're looking in the low to mid 300s.

Ughhhh...I have to strongly disagree.
Great scenery, best mtn biking in the world, great skiing, awesome food, cool people and kick ass crepes.

/but that's just me...

I lived for a year in Vancouver. It was great, and I wanted to stay permanently, but immigration had other ideas.

When the rains came, I holed up with a cute East Indian girl and much reefer. Portland Al's blues record store completed the picture.

another lying American. i'm shocked.

Article: Going to Vancouver is depressing because it's so much nicer than my hometown.

Canadians: AMERICAGARRBLE!!

LittleSmitty: I bet it's a little slice of Heaven compared to Florida


the Florida humidity and heat will make you think you're in Hell. also the Lightning capital of the World.

i'll go with Vancouver every time.

in America, Canada is derided as a crappy place where taxes are Gargantuan. full of 'socialists' and other losers.

and America is so great its asssholle(the South) smells like Roses.

which one would a person of 65 I.Q. or greater believe??

zencentral: Please, Please, Please, Keep spreading the word that Vancouver is a rainy, hippy infested hell hole.

Thank you,



lol BINGO!

Pink Pearl FTW...

Nexzus: scientific progress goes boink: cheshirecatsmileyface: I've never been to Vancouver. I don't want to go. I'm sure it's downright fantastic, but my coworker is a Canadian from Vancouver and it's all he farking talks about. Constantly. He hates the fact that he had to move to the US, and Michigan in particular, because his wife got a great job here and she makes more money than he does and it's the worst thing to have ever happened to him and so he consoles himself by waxing poetically about Vancouver over and over and over again whenever possible and after a full year of this, I just don't farking care anymore, dude.

/rant off


... and spending a day at Lake Michigan doesn't shut him up? Or the fact that it costs ~80% less than Vancouver to live here comfortably?

I mean damn, Canada is awesome, but I just bought a nice house with land for a lower price than a 1-bedroom crap apartment in Vancouver.
/ Or Toronto, for that matter.
// Dunno about Calgary, haven't been there long enough.

I imagine you did. I just bought a second floor, 588 sqft. apartment for $245K. It's near a station of our mass transit train station, and it's a decent, concrete building. But yeah, real estate prices are absolutely insane here. For a 375 sqft studio apartment, in or near the downtown core, you're looking in the low to mid 300s.


Ah, hell. Now that you've replied, it looks like I insulted your apartment. And I'm too nice a person to do that -- in all probability, your place looks nicer than mine. (Previous owners had some interesting ideas regarding wallpaper color schemes.)

But... a two-story, 3bd/1bth house on 6 acres with a damn nice pole barn, a goat, and a couple of chickens, for $140K. Fifteen minutes outside of a 500,000-person city with some decent restaurants and shopping, and an hour away from Lake Michigan. For this, I will hop on a plane and visit lovely Vancouver and enjoy myself thoroughly, without scrambling to make my mortgage payment.

/ and if we get some decent health care in this country, it'll be one less thing to mock Americans about.

THE ARTICLE IS COMPLIMENTING VANCOUVER.

I am a Vancouverite, proud of my city, but either way, if you get this sensitive over someone's opinion of your city, you likely have a lot of sand irritating other parts of your vagina.

Again, this article is actually complimenting Vancouver. He is saying that Vancouver is everything his hometown SHOULD be, and he resents his town because of how awesome Vancouver is.

I've lived all over and I think Vancouver is one of the best places in the world to live - great multiculturalism, progressive attitudes, access to the world, every natural environment you can think of less than 2 hours away.... it's just great. But if someone else doesn't see it that way, it's fine with me.

It can't be more depressing than Bremerton, WA.

LittleSmitty: I bet it's a little slice of Heaven compared to Florida

I've lived in both. I'd go back to Florida in second. I'd only go back to Vancouver at gunpoint, and even then I'd have to consider taking the bullet instead.

The_Sponge
How true is that.
Portland is bad enough then bam! lovely Vancouver WA.
I guess the only good thing is that you now have a highway speed limit over 55 mph.

Rev.K:

See my other point that I'm not interested in following this "news" article to some dude's blog.

I didn't either. I figured that out from reading the news article.

Moved from Vancouver to Victoria as a kid. The weather on the island is generally much better than Van. Weekend trips to Vancouver for urban activities make up for the lack of nightlife in Victoria.

/Thinks it's awesome that someone mentioned the Sticky Wicket in this thread.

Killer Cars: Raindogday: I think this thread set a new record for "Most People Commenting without Reading the Article."

The headline sure riled up some Canadians who proudly live east of the Rockies.

HELL YEAH, YOU RAINY, SUSHI LOVING POT SMOKING HIPPIES!

Well I was talking about everyone, not just the haters. The defenders too. It's like nobody read it. There's nothing to defend.

They film the Twilight movies there, someone probably already said that I didn't read the whole forum, therefore, to this sick and twisted woman who would like to do illegal things to Robert Pattinson, it's a wonderful place.

There are incredible amounts of FAIL with regard to reading comprehension in these comments.

Alex Chilton: There are incredible amounts of FAIL with regard to reading comprehension in these comments.

The best part is how the FAIL keeps on rolling through the thread, despite all the many posts clearly spelling out what the article meant, in boldface, using small words. Case in point: slackinfux.

I couldn't believe how nice people in Vancouver were. Even the hardened dopeheads I encountered in Gastown had more integrity than a lot of Americans.

/Canadian gals, I am available for immigrancy marriage.

Too lazy to go through but I finally clicked through and the reason he called it the most depressing city was because he had to fly back into San Diego and leave it behind and it was basically a rant against the San Diego city council.

texastag:
There's a cure for the depression in Vancouver. It's called weed and Asian chicks. Take two of each and STFU.



I like that plan!

Man, this thread has been awesome for outing people who don't RTFA before they comment.

taobananaboat: blairdobson: taobananaboat: The_Sponge:
2) IIRC, isn't there a smoking ban in Vancouver now?

There is a smoking ban, so in the head shops and cafes you can light up a spliff, but not a ciggy... It's weird.
::::::
thats a whole lotta BS...
what cafes let you light up a spliff?
i would say zero.

you sir are either a liar or a buffoon.

New Amsterdam Cafe
(new window)

twerp

a douchebag infested "headshop" and "cafes" are different things entirely.

also your use of "and cafes" suggests that you can just roll up up to any ol' place and spark a fatty with your other unemployed 420 douche crew without fear of legal problems...this is not the case.
perhaps next time you can make that distinction and not look like a total potheaded farktard.

please feel free to roll one up in Yaletown, Gastown, 4th Ave and get back to me on how well that goes for you Mr. Authority on Vancouver.

you lose.
moran.

yawns....

/wouldn't toss garbage in the New CrapsterDam
//pot is for losers
/// i bet the food there is just great.

How long does a 911 response take in Vancouver? I have a friend who lives in Detroit proper who said the other day it took 5 hours. Totally not surprising.

Detroit FTW

spot the difference

blairdobson

The Vansterdam Cafe
THe Blunt Bros
The Kitsilano Hemp Shoppe & Bakery
The Cannabis Cafe
Four & Twenty

That's just off the top of my head. I think some of those are closed now but there's no lack of nice comfortable lounges with good food in which they don't mind you smoking pot.

You sound really hostile. You should try smoking a joint.

/posted at 4:20

yawn.....

Howie Spankowitz: I'm heading to Vancouver and Victoria for my anniversary Sept. 19-25. I've been once and loved it. It's a beautiful city. Can't wait.

I'm happy to take restaurant/activities suggestions from any of the circular bacon eating, polar bear dodging Farker/ettes.

Twisted Fork Bistro on Granville St, just North of Davie St in Vancouver. Try the mussels. You're welcome. :)

Rev.K: You know what pisses me off about Vancouver? When they run a story on the news or weather channel in January and Vancouverites are saying "it's so rainy, there's been a lot of rain".

Meanwhile in Calgary, it's -32 and my balls are frozen to my taint.

But hey, rain sure does suck, doesn't it?

I think what you're saying is that you're an idiot for living in Calgary...

/lives in Seattle
//just as rainy as Vancouver

I'm getting a nice, warm fuzzy reading this thread, and all of the nice things people are saying about my fair city! Love Vancouver, very proud to live here.

Scoop84: Anyone who thiks vancover sucks doesn't know Byn.

Awwww!! That's so sweet. :)