Comments by "Fredinno" (@innosam123) on "Is Vancouver the best city in North America?" video.

  1. Captain1Sexy Vancouver is the repository for all the crime and homelessness in Canada due to its temperate climate. The winter everywhere else tends to drive them out or indoors pretty quickly.
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  2. Zveebo A bit hyperbole, more like half a million and a job.
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  3. Dexter Hine The Canada isn’t over capacity. It’s crowded because Translink hasn’t put its new trains in service. It has less maximum capacity than the other Skytrain, but it actually has a comparable expected lifespan to the Expo assuming linear demand growth (2060s). Vancouver is always behind on building, but TBF, it’s better than most NA cities. Let’s not get into what’s going on in Toronto, for instance. The GM Tunnel Replacement was killed because of politics.
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  4. Luke J If you have to buy a single family house? Yes. Median price of condos is much lower and more stable because Houses are considered Upper Middle Class and Luxury.
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  5. Mediacow You’d not be able to afford the housing if they didn’t build them. Actually, it’d be worse. Ask San Fran how not building works over there. It doesn’t help that Vancouver is still building less homes than the number of people that come in. Vancouver’s infamous for RE bubbles, shortages, etc. It was going on in the 20s and the 80s as well for really a lot of the same reasons. There’s no easy solution to them.
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  6. Luna Almond San Fran also has much higher average wages- ~$96,000 vs ~$57,000. The latter will probably rise due to the boom in the tech sector in Vancouver, but for now, affordability is actually lower. Not that it’s good there either. As far as I know, San Fran is even more proportionally anti-development than Vancouver, and is better off partially because it has more net developable land.
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  7. Shaan Simple. You don’t buy townhouses in Downtown. You can’t buy cheap townhouses in downtowns in general. What did you expect?
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  8. Mediacow Where do you live? 40min to Transit is not normal, even Walnut Grove, where I live, is still 10min to Transit, 30min frequency. Terrible, but that’s what you get for living on the outskirts to get cheaper housing. It’s cheap for a reason. Snow literally only arrives a couple days on average in a year, meaning the cost benefit ratio is extremely low for munis to maintain a suffice t fleet for the few times it does snow. Most European Cities were built primarily with transit/walking in mind centuries ago. We are doing that here, but not fast enough. Building for the citizens effectively means to build out faster while keeping excessive speculation down. We are doing that, but it’s like trying to improve the economy. Everyone is dissatisfied, but no one has a perfect answer.
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  9. Luke J I mean, Vancouver has a relative land shortage in comparison to most Canadian cities. Expanding out at this point means going over an hour from the city core, so yes. Condos are needed if you don’t want people to be commuting from Abbotsford.
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  10. Norman Galimski Metrotown, Coquitlam Central, and Richmond aren’t suburbs.
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  11. Trent Dabs Yeah, with all of those warehouses, parking lots, and industrial lands in Downtown East and Yaletown... https://604now.com/vintage-vancouver-the-world-in-a-city-circa-1980/ Those buildings in the centre are still all there, just obscured by other towers.
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  12. Trent Dabs WTF is a labourhood?
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  13. frankySR21 Probably because every tower was pretty much built within the last ~30 years since Expo 86, minus the designated ‘historical’ districts and a couple of office towers. Also, the city has a council that literally has to be appeased to get apartments constructed. Which has some pretty unsurprising results in the sense that those people enforce their own vision.
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  14. Shaan Well, yeah- thing is that Downton became a prototype that every other municipality in Vancouver (aside from a few) tries to emulate to an extent with their town centres. People DO have families in Vancouver Downtown, same as they do in Manhattan, but it just isn’t for the vast majority of people who need them.
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  15. Stinger Grail I thought Patrica is a residential hotel?
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