I've been to Vancouver many times in the past, but missed to visit last 10 years or so. Now, I am sold by this video, that now I am retired I want to live, or at least stay a longer period to enjoy many facets of the activities this city'd offer, particularly, outdoor things.
My friend Chris was born in Vancouver at old Grace Hospital. I was born in New Westminster or Burnaby. I live in Burnaby very close to Vancouver. Unfortunately it has become expensive to live in Vancouver & Burnaby.I like the diversity of people in Vancouver from different cultures, races, faiths. I like diversity of music, dance, art, food in Burnaby & Vancouver.
I lived next to Stanley Park when I designed the housing in Richmond. I liked Vancouver very much. It reminded me of Hong Kong in many ways. George Wu, ARCHITECT, AIA, NCARB 2018-2-24
What a great documentary! I was born and grew up in Vancouver, and I’ve learned some things I didn’t know before. I knew Mrs. Sue Jackman who had a small shop in the Narrowest building. And a little sadly, Mountain Equipment Coop has now become a private business, instead of the ‘old’ Coop we all knew. I now no longer live there, but love returning to visit friends and family and to visit familiar places in Vancouver. Thanks for this in depth look at one of my favourite cities.
Asian Canadians isnt the problem in real estate in BC it is the mainland chinese with billions laundering money thru real estate purchases is the problem.They buy up any decent property and just leave it empty.Canada must do something about oversea buyer laundering money into property ownership in Canada,there has to some sort of taxes added to non Canadian buyers.
+Canada Ontario the taxes won't change anything. the buyers you're talking about have so much money it won't matter to them. And even if our local government wants to add yet more taxes they know this too
+ysmbl Add a 25% tax on it I bet you they would move the money over to the US.They are rich but they still want to make money.Problem is now the dollar so low the houses in Vancouver is "cheaper" for them so the next wave of money is coming over and sadly to say for majority of Vancouver residence the dream of owning a home is unreachable.
+Canada Ontario Agreed, I'm Chinese, I was born in this city 20 years ago and I'm literally being threatened away from the only city I know by the sky rocketing of housing costs created by these people.
+TechGerbil so true,some people assume that all the Vancouver asians are just recently immigrated but 85% were either born in BC or lived in BC for decades.The stereotypical loud money flaunting mainland asian is such a small percentage they give majority of the asians a bad image.The real sad part is Canadians cannot buy a home in Vancouver,Surrey,Port Moody,etc,etc to start a family and this causes prejudice and friction among even the local asians,its not about racism but lack of affordable housing that is caused by speculating over sea money.
l was _blessed_ to grow up here! l think its a city fit for Heaven! l've seen some other cities like SF in the 90's which was nice. However, SF is in the DUMPER today! Vancouver ...is still as gorgeous as ever! l hope it stays this way forever! ..a bit more affordable would be better though!
I've lived here all my life and I've traveled to many other cities around the world; Pnom Phen, Hong Kong, Havana, New York, Istanbul, London, Paris, LA, Sydney, Athens, Bucharest, Taipei, Salt Lake City.............. they all have their charm and they all give the Earth diversity which is oh so refreshing!
Hector L. Campos Thanks for the recap. The prices are so high, because lot of properties were purchased (and are not lived in) by Hong Kong Chinese at the time of HK handover to China. Further more, lot of mainland Chinese, Singaporeans and Indians have bought the property there, primarily as an off shore investment (to hide the money). As stated elsewhere on this thread. The UN beancounters come statisticians, who rate the cities livability, tend to cite the reasons, that "not everyone" cares about. On those bases, I would not rate Vancouver even amongst top 20 cities in the world. I am not worried about schooling, nor the public transport, as I use neither. I am not that worried about the ratio of income to cost of living either. But I do worry about good weather all year around, the proximity of good beach, when I want it, the locality of shops, restaurants and cultural venues .. and not the replication of US crap of shopping malls on distant periphery of cities. I preffer old cities with history and character etc. Vancouver has none of these. It might be a "lesser concrete jungle" than New York, with a bit of water and greenery. It might even be more cosmopolitan than Sydney in Australia. And it is damn side cleaner than London, Paris, or Rome. So what? Give it the time (20-30 years), take away the clenliness and efficiency by employing the cheap migrant labour, add the rotting food and excrement in streets of downtown, mixed with the stench of curry and it is just another Calcutta.
notalloftheabove Not quite. I am what is called "a realist". There is a certain class of people "amongst us" .. that is trying to destroy the world, that was built by Europeans over the past centuries.
Too rainy. Too gloomy. How can a city with such an amazing location not have developed diversified industry like Seattle was able to ? British and offshoots of british peoples always seem to want to make easy money in real estate or finance. They don't want to get their fingers dirty. The architect who seemed to be proud about the fact that an apartment would cost millions of dollars made me laugh. Yeah, pricing shelter so high that nobody can afford it but the rich is a real accomplishment. sarc /
For people like myself whose favorite weather type is rain and finds clouds and cloudy days to be the most beautiful, there's no such thing as too rainy and too gloomy.
It is a joke; you can buy a 12-bedroom mansion in the UK on an immaculately groomed estate for the same price as a shabby, 2-bedroom, post-war bungalow in Vancouver. The real joke is that Vancouverites are stupid enough-and gullible enough-to make this hell their day-to-day reality, and do so with zeal! At the moment, there is an exodus away from the city. I, for one, can't wait to get the hell out of here. Vancouver resembles a world-class city in the same way that shit can be mistaken for Belgian chocolate to the uninitiated.
mangore623 give me a break...europe or uk is boring. Who wants to move to an isolated country like uk. Atleast in Canada you get to live in the Western Hemisphere where you got easy access to anywhere Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, central, South America. Vancouver has a mild weather too.
@@nochatter7134 The UK is hardly boring, London is one of the capitals of the world. UK is isolated? You can take a train and be in other world-famous cities in a couple hours, the entire Europe is easily accessible. Vancouver is boring when it comes to non-outdoor activities, also it is isolated, the only nearby big city is Seattle and it's not that spectacular. Everything else requires an expensive plane trip.
This documentary could have used a better research team when it came to selecting experts. Right off the bat, Maurice Guibord, the "historian" claims that Gastown was Vancouver's original name. It was not. It was called Granville. Gassy Jack is a minor figure in Vancouver's history who was used to add flavour when the area's history was sanitized and mythologised in the 1980s. That's when it was christened Gastown. It's also terrifically ignorant to talk about the area as "virgin forest" when there were thriving indigenous communities here thousands of years ago. And Lyne Barnabé knows zero about bicycle history in Vancouver. It isn't popular because of the Grand Fondo. It's popular because community organisers put thousands of hours into making it happen, starting in the 1990s.The first victory was when the municipality agreed to retrofit storm drains so that their bars ran perpendicular to the curb, instead of parallel (if they're parallel it can catch bike wheels and cause crashes). Next a group called the Bicycle People campaigned to have widened sidewalks to accommodate pedestrians and cyclists on the Lion's Gate Bridge, which was successful in 2001. Critical Mass started in Vancouver in 1994 or 1995 and was instrumental in coagulating advocates and educating Vancouver PD and City Hall (the ride was declared a protest ride by the city government early on, and the Vancouver Police Department was instructed to either not interfere or support the ride). Now residents have mulitmodal options to get around, and aren't locked into their cars with no options. There is no way we could support the density we do without this.
Well said but a minor correction, Gastown has been called Gastown as long as I can remember. I was born here in 1963 and have lived here all my life. Many times when I was growing up we went downtown and went to Woodwards on Hastings and, Army and Navy, I love that store as it is the only store I have ever been in that you have to cross an alley to get to another part of the store, kinda cool, and then from there wed would go over to Gastown. Which was called Gastown back in 1968. Cheers.
Most beautiful city in North America if not the world. I am glad I visit it every few years from Alberta. Especially enjoy watching the ship traffic and eating fish I just caught right in the city bay. This is the only major city in the world you can fish and eat your catch without worry of cancer. Just wish I can afford a house in Vancouver, New Westminster or White Rock. Most expensive property in Canada.
For those who had visited Vancouver, more than one time to be sure, East Hasting Street near Chinatown, is the worst part of Vancouver (maybe after South Surrey). This apart,, Vancouver is great, really great (specially Stanley Park). People are kind, landscape are amazing, and oops, big cats are, hopefully, scared). I'm not canadian, but I usually go on holliday in Vancouver because of Pamela Martin and Bill Good (from CTV News). They sold your country so well. So, here I decided to come back, and back again !!
Whats funny is if you ask tourists if the visit Canada they almost always go to Vancouver and Victoria from the west coast. Its like BC is the only province!
to "The Fillion" I do not agree with your comment. I am Canadian citizen, parents moved to US in Arizona when i was 12 & I have duel citizenship now, US & Canada. I was planning after graduating University to move to Vancouver since my mom had cousin who lived there. I was very shocked at the price of housing & other goods. Seattle is also expensive compared to much of USA cities BUT AT LEAST I can afford decent home in Seattle in good area & NO WAY can I afford similar home in Vancouver. I DO NOT want to be a renter all my life & do enjoy some kind of standard of living & having money in my saving acct, eventually retiring earlier & being able to do my hobbies & having time. I am not materialist. I enjoy spending time with my dogs & playing guitar & violin & walking. I make enough money living in Seattle area that I can also afford to quit my job once every 10 years & take 2 years off enjoying life-----this would be impossible with the very very high standard of living in Vancouver. Also my home i bought is my nest egg i will be able to sell when i become very old. I would not be able to afford house in Vancouver except perhaps in crappy crime area neighborhood....sorry that is not for me & certainly not enjoyable way to live. Vancouver is a very beautiful location geographically, but set up they have with housing costs & those many apartments straddling the water views is AWFUL !!!
That guy @ 8:00 said Vancouver is the busiest port on the west coast of North America, but actually it is the smallest (or 2nd smallest) major coastal port on the West Coast (in terms of gross tonnage/TEUs/FEUs).
THE GLOBE SALOON - New Westminster, BC proprietor John ”Gassy Jack” Deighton In early 1860 John Deighton was a Fraser River pilot, a darn good one too. The 1862 Cariboo gold rush lured him to strike it rich, but sadly no fortune awaited him here. He returned to New Westminster and acquired the Globe Saloon. The Victorian term 'to gas' referred to talking a lot, something Captain Deighton was very famous for. One of his friends wrote that at the Globe, Jack recited his desperate adventures and hairsbreadth escapes to all who came through the doors, be they old acquaintances, there for thirst, curiosity or his whisky and so he acquired the nickname Gassy Jack. Unfortunately in 1867 he entrusted his saloon, whisky and cash to an American friend while he went to Douglas Springs (now Harrison Springs) for his health. But the American patriot took advantage of his position and on July 4 the friend invested Deighton's cash in powder, rockets and fire-crackers for what must have been a glorious display and there was even whisky on the house that day. All this left Gassy Jack broke and disillusioned with his fellow man.
The thing about apartments becoming the place people with tons of money go to invest/spend their money, is that houses aren't affordable still and the apartments are a status symbol...and 20% isn't enough... Lane-way housing is still expensive for a single occupant. 1500-2500/mo...and this was 7 years ago.
Don't you love going out for a stroll in the beautiful downtown, watch thousands of homeless people do drugs, defecate, copulate in the street? It's part of Vancouver's charm. The locals are so used to it, they're just standing there at the bus stop, looking into their phones, pretending that all of that isn't happening within just a few feet. Marvelous city indeed.
2020: It used to be a "great" city before 1986 and Expo 86. After that year the world found out we existed and "bam" it started. As someone who is a second generation "Greater Vancouverite" I don't like my city anymore: Too big and too expensive.
i used to live in vancouver then i moved to the suburbs of vancouver in a town called maple ridge, and the reason why we moved was because our entire neighborhood was full of immigrants and the was a bootist church right across the street and they would sing their chinese song and they were extremely loud, i was actually the only white kid at my school, outta 700 the only white one.
abdulaziz shariff The trees need the rain to stay green and the reservoirs need to be full because when the summer starts, IT FREAKIN COOKS in Vancouver IT FUCKIN ROCKS! VANCOUVER IN THE SUMMER RULES!!!!! WHOOOOO!!!!!
they say extremely shrink NYC put it in a bowl and take an electric mixer to it LOL i think thats pretty much Vancouver as far as the different cultures and food go, in New York its more spread out however i think we can safely hand New York the title in the Jewish delis department lol best Vancouver has is Sollys now why they haven't opened a location around the Oakridge mall area still puzzles me (strong Jew pop.) and of course in New York the delis have waaaay more selection ahaha
Well, the video is titled: "Waterfront Cities of the World: Vancouver". It does not say Lower Mainland. It does not say Greater Vancouver. It does not say suburbs of Vancouver. Why would Burnaby, Surrey, and New West be in a film about Vancouver? Sorry, but none of the places you mentioned qualify as being part of the city of Vancouver.
Good luck ever affording a home in Vancouver, you'd have to be rich to own one. Besides, it rains too much and the city is covered half the year with overcast. People are not overly friendly and the job market is not the best. -Now Toronto, that is a great city!
+Black Cobra Toronto is a cesspit. I am about to move to Vancouver from Toronto. People here are not friendly either. The city is old and run down and full of bugs. And the houses in Toronto, you'd pay 1 million dollars for a 50 year old house. No thanks.
yomega brain Toronto is nice, so much more to do. It's really expensive hear in Vancouver, and it rains to no end. Toronto is clean and the people seem nicer then out here. -To each their own I guess.
It definitely depends on what you're into. If you enjoy outdoor sports then you will feel suppressed living in toronto. Although there may be "lots to do" that doesn't help if you can't afford to do it. Living the life in toronto is not too possible on minimum wage. I have a profession but it's still very competitive and full time work isn't readily available here. I have seen lots of poverty here. As for the weather I think I could put up with some rain as opposed to 5 months of snow and -20 temperatures.
yomega brain Vancouver is depressingly cloudy for most of the year. Wait until you go without seeing the sun for a few months straight, you may feel differently. At least it is sunny in Toronto in the winter. And if you think Toronto is pricey, try living in Van! Poverty is rampant here, go to East Hastings sometime, it is the shithole of Canada. I advise that you don't go at night though as it is really pretty dangerous. Jobs? In Vancouver? What jobs? Unless you are highly educated, good luck! Lots of barely livable minimum wage employment though, but better hurry, temporary foreign workers are snatching them up fast! -Grass always looks greener on the other side doesn't it?
The parks look nice - the flats complexes look bloody awful. And the cost of each flat - millions of dollars !! Where did the architects get their training, in a matchbox company ?
i used to live there and it rocked. now....its well known..and this is NOT disputed...ITS THE HARDEST CITY IN THE WORLD TO FIND A FUCK. straight up kids. no chaser.
3 ways to make living in Vancouver more affordable, among other ideas. 1. Property value tax: -Tax companies with profits over a certain threshold a greater property tax as a percent of profit and put it towards to subsidizing property above a certain market value - Place an initial set-up/transfer tax on any commercial land transactions based on percent after sale price - Entitlement tax as percent of property tax value placed on a rate based on percent of income after a threshold 2. Tourism tax: - If you don't live in Vancouver, you should not only pay the hotel, but the citizens a daily fee as well for staying in their city. No city should have hotel rooms for non-inhabitants when they have homeless or needy people. 3. Market correction per term: Once average property value surpasses affordable limits based on national income, all property transactions will be capped at a certain price, and the remaining value be paid for by the city (using funds from the above) until all property's market value is corrected.
This whole serial is completely failed. The girl is "not with her guests" at all, doesn't show any interests in discussed topic, no passion, no verve, sometimes doesn't know what question she should ask and doesn't remember the "script" for the interview, as if the questions were not coming out from the discussion... Who, the crap, gave her so much money to travel to so many places?, and for what reason?
This video has a lot of inaccuracies. Bettythebutcher mentions some below. Port is far from largest, and the guy saying it knows he's not telling the truth when he says "that's how the port advertises itself." It would be nice if you did more research and presented solid facts about this city.
Jesse Chen it's not...LA is much busier for sure..
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Jesse Chen L.A. and Long Beach are busier container ports. That said; Vancouver also ships billions of tonnes of timber, pulp, ore, petroleum, etc., etc., etc., making it MUCH busier than any other "American" port on the Pacific.
Tired of seeing all the hatred against Chinese people in the racist comment section....this is completely unfair(I am a NOT a Chinese myself ) ...all humans are equal ...I don't care whether you are American , Russsian , Chinese , Indian ...everyone has equal value...PERIOD!!!!
Umm okay but where are the First Nations at in this portrayal, that's what I wanna know. Also except for Henry Yu everyone else who talked remotely about "diversity" seems to only refer to it foodwise. I don't know. What do you all think?
Get your facts straight, not everyone here is from somewhere else. I was born here, I have lived here my entire life, I will die here and I will be buried here!
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I love Vancouver. I recently visited for only the second time. But it's one of my favorite places I've ever been to. So beautiful.
I really like Vancouver not only is it green, but being so close to the forest etc
I've been to Vancouver many times in the past, but missed to visit last 10 years or so. Now, I am sold by this video, that now I am retired I want to live, or at least stay a longer period to enjoy many facets of the activities this city'd offer, particularly, outdoor things.
My dream is to live there, i love you Vancouver :) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
I was born here and I live here too! Canadians and people from all over the world have smiles on their faces!
My friend Chris was born in Vancouver at old Grace Hospital. I was born in New Westminster or Burnaby. I live in Burnaby very close to Vancouver. Unfortunately it has become expensive to live in Vancouver & Burnaby.I like the diversity of people in Vancouver from different cultures, races, faiths. I like diversity of music, dance, art, food in Burnaby & Vancouver.
I lived next to Stanley Park when I designed the housing in Richmond. I liked Vancouver very much. It reminded me of Hong Kong in many ways. George Wu, ARCHITECT, AIA, NCARB 2018-2-24
One of my favorite cities in the world…been there about 30 times
one of my favorite cities, love you Vancouver. hope to see you soon
Great series of programs, Well done. The host is talented and beautiful!
Relax. don't be insecure. Vancouver is as it is. Most people like it. some don't. Who cares.
What a great documentary! I was born and grew up in Vancouver, and I’ve learned some things I didn’t know before. I knew Mrs. Sue Jackman who had a small shop in the Narrowest building. And a little sadly, Mountain Equipment Coop has now become a private business, instead of the ‘old’ Coop we all knew.
I now no longer live there, but love returning to visit friends and family and to visit familiar places in Vancouver.
Thanks for this in depth look at one of my favourite cities.
Asian Canadians isnt the problem in real estate in BC it is the mainland chinese with billions laundering money thru real estate purchases is the problem.They buy up any decent property and just leave it empty.Canada must do something about oversea buyer laundering money into property ownership in Canada,there has to some sort of taxes added to non Canadian buyers.
+Canada Ontario Agreed, it's getting out of hand.
+Canada Ontario the taxes won't change anything. the buyers you're talking about have so much money it won't matter to them. And even if our local government wants to add yet more taxes they know this too
+ysmbl
Add a 25% tax on it I bet you they would move the money over to the US.They are rich but they still want to make money.Problem is now the dollar so low the houses in Vancouver is "cheaper" for them so the next wave of money is coming over and sadly to say for majority of Vancouver residence the dream of owning a home is unreachable.
+Canada Ontario Agreed, I'm Chinese, I was born in this city 20 years ago and I'm literally being threatened away from the only city I know by the sky rocketing of housing costs created by these people.
+TechGerbil so true,some people assume that all the Vancouver asians are just recently immigrated but 85% were either born in BC or lived in BC for decades.The stereotypical loud money flaunting mainland asian is such a small percentage they give majority of the asians a bad image.The real sad part is Canadians cannot buy a home in Vancouver,Surrey,Port Moody,etc,etc to start a family and this causes prejudice and friction among even the local asians,its not about racism but lack of affordable housing that is caused by speculating over sea money.
11:00 I love that go green Vancouver! I would love to live there.
l was _blessed_ to grow up here! l think its a city fit for Heaven! l've seen some other cities like SF in the 90's which was nice. However, SF is in the DUMPER today! Vancouver ...is still as gorgeous as ever! l hope it stays this way forever! ..a bit more affordable would be better though!
a lot of homeless and mentally ill there, but still nice
It's a beautiful city and friendly people I love you
I've lived here all my life and I've traveled to many other cities around the world; Pnom Phen, Hong Kong, Havana, New York, Istanbul, London, Paris, LA, Sydney, Athens, Bucharest, Taipei, Salt Lake City.............. they all have their charm and they all give the Earth diversity which is oh so refreshing!
Vancouver's port throughput is tiny compared to long beach and Oakland California it is however the largest deepwater port in north America in size
Lived here for a long time and it truly is amazing. This video does not do it justice.
Nice weather, nice scenery, great when the sun is out.
Beautiful BC 'best place on Earth'
Hector L. Campos Thanks for the recap. The prices are so high, because lot of properties were purchased (and are not lived in) by Hong Kong Chinese at the time of HK handover to China. Further more, lot of mainland Chinese, Singaporeans and Indians have bought the property there, primarily as an off shore investment (to hide the money). As stated elsewhere on this thread. The UN beancounters come statisticians, who rate the cities livability, tend to cite the reasons, that "not everyone" cares about. On those bases, I would not rate Vancouver even amongst top 20 cities in the world. I am not worried about schooling, nor the public transport, as I use neither. I am not that worried about the ratio of income to cost of living either. But I do worry about good weather all year around, the proximity of good beach, when I want it, the locality of shops, restaurants and cultural venues .. and not the replication of US crap of shopping malls on distant periphery of cities. I preffer old cities with history and character etc. Vancouver has none of these. It might be a "lesser concrete jungle" than New York, with a bit of water and greenery. It might even be more cosmopolitan than Sydney in Australia. And it is damn side cleaner than London, Paris, or Rome. So what? Give it the time (20-30 years), take away the clenliness and efficiency by employing the cheap migrant labour, add the rotting food and excrement in streets of downtown, mixed with the stench of curry and it is just another Calcutta.
+R Jensen Quite the negative person arn't you ?
notalloftheabove Not quite. I am what is called "a realist".
There is a certain class of people "amongst us" .. that is trying to destroy the world, that was built by Europeans over the past centuries.
Vancouver. Lovely place, Lovely people. Thank you very much for the video. the Vancouver public Library was missing on the video?
Vancouver was the first city on the west coast of north America to purchase motorized fire engines after the great fire of 1885
Too rainy. Too gloomy.
How can a city with such an amazing location not have developed diversified industry like Seattle was able to ?
British and offshoots of british peoples always seem to want to make easy money in real estate or finance. They don't want to get their fingers dirty. The architect who seemed to be proud about the fact that an apartment would cost millions of dollars made me laugh. Yeah, pricing shelter so high that nobody can afford it but the rich is a real accomplishment. sarc /
For people like myself whose favorite weather type is rain and finds clouds and cloudy days to be the most beautiful, there's no such thing as too rainy and too gloomy.
It is a joke; you can buy a 12-bedroom mansion in the UK on an immaculately groomed estate for the same price as a shabby, 2-bedroom, post-war bungalow in Vancouver. The real joke is that Vancouverites are stupid enough-and gullible enough-to make this hell their day-to-day reality, and do so with zeal! At the moment, there is an exodus away from the city. I, for one, can't wait to get the hell out of here. Vancouver resembles a world-class city in the same way that shit can be mistaken for Belgian chocolate to the uninitiated.
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The Grand Coulie dam+WWII+Boeing.
mangore623 give me a break...europe or uk is boring. Who wants to move to an isolated country like uk. Atleast in Canada you get to live in the Western Hemisphere where you got easy access to anywhere Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, central, South America. Vancouver has a mild weather too.
@@nochatter7134 The UK is hardly boring, London is one of the capitals of the world. UK is isolated? You can take a train and be in other world-famous cities in a couple hours, the entire Europe is easily accessible. Vancouver is boring when it comes to non-outdoor activities, also it is isolated, the only nearby big city is Seattle and it's not that spectacular. Everything else requires an expensive plane trip.
It looks like a beautiful and great place to live. I hope I can at least visit it.
i miss vancouver so much
I am from Toronto but Vancouver is awesome.
I'm moving from Atlanta, Georgia to Vancouver.
+Christel Vinot How's Vancouver so far?
cold mornings, warm afternoons. No rain for weeks, until yesterday. And yesterday and today have been cold and rainy.
We tried to buy a space heater but no one sells freakin space heaters in the summer here.
we found one at walmart, though. And it was the last one, until the fall stock comes.
+Christel Vinot just a few days it reached 98 degrees celthius
Thanks a bunch. 🧡
This documentary could have used a better research team when it came to selecting experts. Right off the bat, Maurice Guibord, the "historian" claims that Gastown was Vancouver's original name. It was not. It was called Granville. Gassy Jack is a minor figure in Vancouver's history who was used to add flavour when the area's history was sanitized and mythologised in the 1980s. That's when it was christened Gastown. It's also terrifically ignorant to talk about the area as "virgin forest" when there were thriving indigenous communities here thousands of years ago.
And Lyne Barnabé knows zero about bicycle history in Vancouver. It isn't popular because of the Grand Fondo. It's popular because community organisers put thousands of hours into making it happen, starting in the 1990s.The first victory was when the municipality agreed to retrofit storm drains so that their bars ran perpendicular to the curb, instead of parallel (if they're parallel it can catch bike wheels and cause crashes). Next a group called the Bicycle People campaigned to have widened sidewalks to accommodate pedestrians and cyclists on the Lion's Gate Bridge, which was successful in 2001. Critical Mass started in Vancouver in 1994 or 1995 and was instrumental in coagulating advocates and educating Vancouver PD and City Hall (the ride was declared a protest ride by the city government early on, and the Vancouver Police Department was instructed to either not interfere or support the ride). Now residents have mulitmodal options to get around, and aren't locked into their cars with no options. There is no way we could support the density we do without this.
Henry Yu is awesome though, and super knowledgable!
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What can I do for you Ronald?
Well said but a minor correction, Gastown has been called Gastown as long as I can remember. I was born here in 1963 and have lived here all my life. Many times when I was growing up we went downtown and went to Woodwards on Hastings and, Army and Navy, I love that store as it is the only store I have ever been in that you have to cross an alley to get to another part of the store, kinda cool, and then from there wed would go over to Gastown. Which was called Gastown back in 1968.
Cheers.
So very beautiful place ❤❤❤
wow, great job, fantastic documentary.
Very thoughtful documentary asking very important questions for the Vancouver communities.
Most beautiful city in North America if not the world. I am glad I visit it every few years from Alberta. Especially enjoy watching the ship traffic and eating fish I just caught right in the city bay. This is the only major city in the world you can fish and eat your catch without worry of cancer. Just wish I can afford a house in Vancouver, New Westminster or White Rock. Most expensive property in Canada.
Nice place and thanks for sharing
Bravo to the developers of the Woodward’s complex. It’s important that we have compassion for all who live here.
I LOVE VANCOUVER, BEST CITY ON EARTH! BUT IT IS A HIGH WAY ROBBERY !
For those who had visited Vancouver, more than one time to be sure, East Hasting Street near Chinatown, is the worst part of Vancouver (maybe after South Surrey). This apart,, Vancouver is great, really great (specially Stanley Park). People are kind, landscape are amazing, and oops, big cats are, hopefully, scared). I'm not canadian, but I usually go on holliday in Vancouver because of Pamela Martin and Bill Good (from CTV News). They sold your country so well. So, here I decided to come back, and back again !!
+mooldoo south surrey is actually the best part of surrey! north surrey is shit
Whats funny is if you ask tourists if the visit Canada they almost always go to Vancouver and Victoria from the west coast. Its like BC is the only province!
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That's funny cause when I ask tourists they always say Toronto or Montreal never Vancouver but ok
Yup! Some must think Vancouver is a seperate country or something.
erich84502ify lol
+erich84502ify wtf, most tourists visit Toronto, Niagra and Montreal.
Interesting video!
I live in this city since 1980. Alot have changed. The many places we once knew is now a ghostly form of its selves or no longer there.
to "The Fillion" I do not agree with your comment. I am Canadian citizen, parents moved to US in Arizona when i was 12 & I have duel citizenship now, US & Canada. I was planning after graduating University to move to Vancouver since my mom had cousin who lived there. I was very shocked at the price of housing & other goods. Seattle is also expensive compared to much of USA cities BUT AT LEAST I can afford decent home in Seattle in good area & NO WAY can I afford similar home in Vancouver. I DO NOT want to be a renter all my life & do enjoy some kind of standard of living & having money in my saving acct, eventually retiring earlier & being able to do my hobbies & having time. I am not materialist. I enjoy spending time with my dogs & playing guitar & violin & walking. I make enough money living in Seattle area that I can also afford to quit my job once every 10 years & take 2 years off enjoying life-----this would be impossible with the very very high standard of living in Vancouver. Also my home i bought is my nest egg i will be able to sell when i become very old. I would not be able to afford house in Vancouver except perhaps in crappy crime area neighborhood....sorry that is not for me & certainly not enjoyable way to live. Vancouver is a very beautiful location geographically, but set up they have with housing costs & those many apartments straddling the water views is AWFUL !!!
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The US is in Arizona?
Vancouver is the best city. 2hr drive to any lake ski hill camp site or back to city life
My second favorite city in the world but this video is over the top boosterism!
That guy @ 8:00 said Vancouver is the busiest port on the west coast of North America, but actually it is the smallest (or 2nd smallest) major coastal port on the West Coast (in terms of gross tonnage/TEUs/FEUs).
Correction is coming this time.Sales are down but prices are up?.
THE GLOBE SALOON - New Westminster, BC proprietor John ”Gassy Jack” Deighton
In early 1860 John Deighton was a Fraser River pilot, a
darn good one too. The 1862 Cariboo gold rush lured him to
strike it rich, but sadly no fortune awaited him here. He
returned to New Westminster and acquired the Globe Saloon.
The Victorian term 'to gas' referred to talking a lot, something
Captain Deighton was very famous for. One of his friends
wrote that at the Globe, Jack recited his desperate adventures
and hairsbreadth escapes to all who came through the doors,
be they old acquaintances, there for thirst, curiosity or his
whisky and so he acquired the nickname Gassy Jack.
Unfortunately in 1867 he entrusted his saloon, whisky and
cash to an American friend while he went to Douglas Springs
(now Harrison Springs) for his health. But the American
patriot took advantage of his position and on July 4 the friend
invested Deighton's cash in powder, rockets and fire-crackers
for what must have been a glorious display and there was even whisky on the house that day. All this left Gassy Jack broke and disillusioned with his fellow man.
Looks like a lovely place. Also not as insanely huge as say New York, Tokyo or Chicago.
+antred11
Vancouver is a polar opposite of those cities.
I like Vancouver , I have lived in Vancouver 3 years ago.
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I saw that clock behind them this summer!
The thing about apartments becoming the place people with tons of money go to invest/spend their money, is that houses aren't affordable still and the apartments are a status symbol...and 20% isn't enough...
Lane-way housing is still expensive for a single occupant. 1500-2500/mo...and this was 7 years ago.
Stunning , rich and full of homeless people 😵 💔
Oh Canada 😎
They flock due to weather, no one can survive being outside on -30 degree weather, i feel bad for these i hope they get help!
Don't you love going out for a stroll in the beautiful downtown, watch thousands of homeless people do drugs, defecate, copulate in the street? It's part of Vancouver's charm. The locals are so used to it, they're just standing there at the bus stop, looking into their phones, pretending that all of that isn't happening within just a few feet. Marvelous city indeed.
2020: It used to be a "great" city before 1986 and Expo 86. After that year the world found out we existed and "bam" it started. As someone who is a second generation "Greater Vancouverite" I don't like my city anymore: Too big and too expensive.
i used to live in vancouver then i moved to the suburbs of vancouver in a town called maple ridge, and the reason why we moved was because our entire neighborhood was full of immigrants and the was a bootist church right across the street and they would sing their chinese song and they were extremely loud, i was actually the only white kid at my school, outta 700 the only white one.
stfu
sarah adam exactly lol
I can only say you house quality is very bad. it does not block noise. I never heard people move our one place only because of noise.
go back to europe because asians have claimed Canada sucka
+Nathan Tremblay it is better than far right and KKK only white towns in Alabama and Mississippi.
Hongcover , Canada
Vancouver is beautiful but what can you say about the rain?!
abdulaziz shariff well you get used to it, it becomes part of your life. Not a big deal at all :)
abdulaziz shariff The trees need the rain to stay green and the reservoirs need to be full because when the summer starts, IT FREAKIN COOKS in Vancouver IT FUCKIN ROCKS! VANCOUVER IN THE SUMMER RULES!!!!! WHOOOOO!!!!!
abdulaziz shariff i love rain :)
abdulaziz shariff Not enough of it. Especially now!!!
It's still better than snow and -30 outside for the whole winter
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nice how they put green and city.
Igords tube it was you
vancouver bc, melbourne vic, and sydney nsw are my three favorite cities in the world!
I would only go to Canada in the summer
well done Vancouver.
love this city clean and beautiful c u around
they say extremely shrink NYC put it in a bowl and take an electric mixer to it LOL i think thats pretty much Vancouver as far as the different cultures and food go, in New York its more spread out however i think we can safely hand New York the title in the Jewish delis department lol best Vancouver has is Sollys now why they haven't opened a location around the Oakridge mall area still puzzles me (strong Jew pop.) and of course in New York the delis have waaaay more selection ahaha
This is a more current and specific (to this video) demographics chart. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Metro_Vancouver
I wish I could live in Vancouver but the guy is right, it's to expensive.
LOL, now it's more like 75-100% of our income into housing! If not the highest ratio of income to housing in North America, most likely within top 3.
I'm still on the thought of the suburb
If they put surfing park in city i would live there.
+Igords tube there are many skateboarding parks in Vancouver and suburbs...if that's what you meant by "surfing"
notalloftheabove like wave pool.
Vancouver would be so beautiful without the ports
That man said irregardless
Nice
The fuck. This documentary didn't even mention Burnaby, Surrey, or even New West, which is older than Vancouver itself.
Well, the video is titled: "Waterfront Cities of the World: Vancouver". It does not say Lower Mainland. It does not say Greater Vancouver. It does not say suburbs of Vancouver. Why would Burnaby, Surrey, and New West be in a film about Vancouver? Sorry, but none of the places you mentioned qualify as being part of the city of Vancouver.
Without Burnaby, Surrey, and New West, Vancouver would not have the railroads.
I dunno, Burnaby is technically right across the street from Vancouver. Then again, the documentary didn't really cover East Vancouver, either.
*Hongcouver
Good luck ever affording a home in Vancouver, you'd have to be rich to own one. Besides, it rains too much and the city is covered half the year with overcast. People are not overly friendly and the job market is not the best. -Now Toronto, that is a great city!
+Black Cobra Toronto is a cesspit. I am about to move to Vancouver from Toronto. People here are not friendly either. The city is old and run down and full of bugs. And the houses in Toronto, you'd pay 1 million dollars for a 50 year old house. No thanks.
yomega brain Toronto is nice, so much more to do. It's really expensive hear in Vancouver, and it rains to no end. Toronto is clean and the people seem nicer then out here. -To each their own I guess.
It definitely depends on what you're into. If you enjoy outdoor sports then you will feel suppressed living in toronto. Although there may be "lots to do" that doesn't help if you can't afford to do it. Living the life in toronto is not too possible on minimum wage. I have a profession but it's still very competitive and full time work isn't readily available here. I have seen lots of poverty here. As for the weather I think I could put up with some rain as opposed to 5 months of snow and -20 temperatures.
yomega brain Vancouver is depressingly cloudy for most of the year. Wait until you go without seeing the sun for a few months straight, you may feel differently. At least it is sunny in Toronto in the winter. And if you think Toronto is pricey, try living in Van! Poverty is rampant here, go to East Hastings sometime, it is the shithole of Canada. I advise that you don't go at night though as it is really pretty dangerous. Jobs? In Vancouver? What jobs? Unless you are highly educated, good luck! Lots of barely livable minimum wage employment though, but better hurry, temporary foreign workers are snatching them up fast! -Grass always looks greener on the other side doesn't it?
Haha for sure. But if I don't like it, I guess I can always move back.
The parks look nice - the flats complexes look bloody awful. And the cost of each flat - millions of dollars !! Where did the architects get their training, in a matchbox company ?
I thought it was good work... showed a lot of different facets of Vancouver including some of the opportunities and challenges.
Will be there in 2026 it is a jazzy city.......
Waterfront Cities of the World: Vancouver.
are these all full episodes?
Let's reclaim False Creek and create a palace in the middle !
i used to live there and it rocked. now....its well known..and this is NOT disputed...ITS THE HARDEST CITY IN THE WORLD TO FIND A FUCK. straight up kids. no chaser.
3 ways to make living in Vancouver more affordable, among other ideas.
1. Property value tax: -Tax companies with profits over a certain threshold a greater property tax as a percent of profit and put it towards to subsidizing property above a certain market value
- Place an initial set-up/transfer tax on any commercial land transactions based on percent after sale price
- Entitlement tax as percent of property tax value placed on a rate based on percent of income after a threshold
2. Tourism tax: - If you don't live in Vancouver, you should not only pay the hotel, but the citizens a daily fee as well for staying in their city. No city should have hotel rooms for non-inhabitants when they have homeless or needy people.
3. Market correction per term: Once average property value surpasses affordable limits based on national income, all property transactions will be capped at a certain price, and the remaining value be paid for by the city (using funds from the above) until all property's market value is corrected.
+Rejean Rivard Stalin would have loved you. Mao as well. Except your silliness has NEVER worked anywhere. It is ion fact counterproductive.
24:29 HE SAYS IRREGARDLESS LOL
need a cookie for your grammar discovery?
Fucking dumb hipster is an "architect"
One can say regardless instead, but it is not grammatically incorrect to say irregardless.
This whole serial is completely failed. The girl is "not with her guests" at all, doesn't show any interests in discussed topic, no passion, no verve, sometimes doesn't know what question she should ask and doesn't remember the "script" for the interview, as if the questions were not coming out from the discussion... Who, the crap, gave her so much money to travel to so many places?, and for what reason?
Turns out she is a photographer by trade, not really someone you think wpuld host a series based on urban planning and socio-economic landscapes.
0:22 Wrong. Many people have been here since birth, but there are so few of us left, we all know each other & don't like new people. 😁
The tall buildings are very boring for 2010's and 20's standards
This video has a lot of inaccuracies. Bettythebutcher mentions some below. Port is far from largest, and the guy saying it knows he's not telling the truth when he says "that's how the port advertises itself." It would be nice if you did more research and presented solid facts about this city.
I thought they cut back that Chinese guys property back cus they wanted to drive him out, or that's what I read in a book at least.
Chinese Columbia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_British_Columbia
probably 12% now
Canadian Government!!
@@高土豪-q2j That's for BC, not Vancouver. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver#Demographics 30% in 2016. Higher now!
8:03 There is no way Port of Vancouver is the busiest port on the west of North America...just look at Port of LA...
Jesse Chen it's not...LA is much busier for sure..
Jesse Chen
L.A. and Long Beach are busier container ports. That said; Vancouver also ships billions of tonnes of timber, pulp, ore, petroleum, etc., etc., etc., making it MUCH busier than any other "American" port on the Pacific.
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36:00 There is no fortune cookie in China :-)
Tired of seeing all the hatred against Chinese people in the racist comment section....this is completely unfair(I am a NOT a Chinese myself ) ...all humans are equal ...I don't care whether you are American , Russsian , Chinese , Indian ...everyone has equal value...PERIOD!!!!
Nishan Ghimire I soo agree, it really bugs me of. I think people need to realise it’s not just them but it’s everyone to. Gosh people.
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Selling 1 br apartment 600 sq ft waterfront view $11,000,000 (parking not included)
To bad you can't show the real city on Hastings street and the homelessness. It's a haven for the rich, time for a revolution.
that explains the jumper on the pretentious Vancouver house .. one messed up city
Umm okay but where are the First Nations at in this portrayal, that's what I wanna know.
Also except for Henry Yu everyone else who talked remotely about "diversity" seems to only refer to it foodwise.
I don't know. What do you all think?
breh where is the sun
Get your facts straight, not everyone here is from somewhere else. I was born here, I have lived here my entire life, I will die here and I will be buried here!