Best of Raves
Editor’s note: Round of applause to everyone who listed actual Vancouver “raves” – as in parties – in that Best of the City category. Not what we were going for. For those of you who got the memo, here are some of the best responses!
Despite being stupid expensive and people complaining all the time about it, there are pockets of awesome and friendly folks here if you seek it. Your perspective is your reality.
The diversity. So many different languages in the elevator, interesting people and food. If we can all get along here, I have faith in humanity and the rest of the world.
Best weather in Canada.
City hall opening emergency warming shelters at community centres.
Commitment to everything green.
Bike lanes are starting to connect up.
It's everything I could ever want and then some!
Gastown is so quaint.
Great food, walkable neighbourhoods, beautiful location.
I love that there are so many young creatives breathing new life into this city. Every time a new business opens in my hood, I get excited to see what its influences are and what its all about. Always so thoughtful and considered.
Great transit system.
Great weed in Vancouver.
I must say I really love the pay by phone parking meters.... I never have change!
Last summer was one of the best for things to do around the city. Let's keep up the fun and maybe increase the public performance space and local festivals.
Loving all the people working towards a better environment, social justice and a better tomorrow.
More bike networks and bike lanes, please.
More local brew companies!
Most beautiful city in the world, even when it rains.
There is so much great theatre and so much great food in this town that I can't keep up!
Vancouver is still beautiful, despite the short comings of my 'rant'. It's still a beautiful and unique place. Also, kudos to the community centre staff for pulling all nighters to supervise the CC's for homeless people, so they had somewhere warm and dry to sleep during the Arctic front and snow fall of Dec. 18 and 19, 2016.
We don't really have to deal with winter and that's delightful.
We live in the most beautiful place ever and I would not want to move to any other city!!!
We're adventurers – creatively, entrepreneurially, and physically.
When it's sunny, it's the most beautiful city anywhere. From the middle of the city...15 minutes and you can be in the middle of the forest.
YVR, you emerald gem of an airport, you are the finest in the world.
Best of Rants
1. Parking restrictions.
2. Lack of trash cans on downtown sidewalks.
3. Rush-hour gridlock.
A transit system that is starved for funds from an un-caring, car-centred provincial government.
Absurd (lack of) snow preparedness and crazy people greedy for salt.
All these unused bike lanes! And the ability to not be able to turn right!
Clean up the East End, it’s such a money suck for medical/law enforcement. We need more mental health resources. Also I can’t afford to live here, even though I have a degree and work two jobs.
The cost of living. The knowledge that we WILL have to leave eventually to start a family. And cabs. We need Uber.
I can’t pay my rent. Also lack of public fountains and washrooms is always hard for everyone.
I guess we can’t deal with ice/snow very well.
For the love of all things holy, walk on the right hand side, in a straight line, at a constant speed!
There are always garbage cans full of things that can be recycled.
Government control of liquor, lack of english pubs, and lack of restaurants worthy of Michelin stars.
Even though I have a good stable job, housing is terrifying for most people. Hanging on for dear life to our old and mouldy cheap rental because, if we get evicted, we don't know where our family will go.
Homes are sitting empty...no reasonable to rental units/homes/apartments.
Pipelines expansion will ruin our coastal waters, endanger the delicate glass sponges ecosystem in the straight, bring more pollution & destroy marine ecology.
Housing, women not friendly, lowest wages in major big city
I love the new free bikes. I really do. But we do live in Canada. It snows and is icy in the winter. Investment in winter transportation (salt, grit, snowploughs, sidewalk ploughs) does not make us any less 'green', it makes us safer.
Literally most things about this city suck.
There's too many bylaw restrictions to maintain roots in or foster any form of subculture. Way to keep it superficial Vancouver.
Must sell organs to live here.
No more concrete. Soon we will sink the downtown core and the sun won't be able to get in. We are not Hong Kong or China. Look at the world class cities. Paris London and thousand year old cities, they don't need to build so high.
No one leaves their house.
NO VISION FROM VISION.
This survey is too damn long!
Someone needs to clean that Poodle at Main and 18th....
Not enough swimming lessons. Three years and no chance to get my kids in.
That people who grew up in this city and work in the city can't afford housing. It's total bullshit and very heartbreaking. People are and will leave and Vancouver won't be the same in 10 years as it was.
Not that great, not that many things to do unless you like recreation in nature/hiking.
Too busy! Too many people! Not enough time to just stop and go at a slower pace.
We're detached, complacent.
Pedestrians starting to walk when stop hand already flashing. And the damn bike rental – Mobi or Shaw whatever...taking away so many parking spots and sticking out on the road.
Pedestrians walking in crosswalks until lights are beyond red.
Pedestrians who walk until the light is red. while texting.
People walking in the bike lanes, biking on the sidewalk, electric scooters on the sea wall and car drivers oblivious to everyone else.
People who can't walk properly on crowded streets (on phone, walking 3+ abreast, wrong side).
People who don't know how to walk with umbrellas.
Too many livable heritage homes demolished.
Unnecessarily awful traffic. One ways, construction, empty bikes lanes that are multiplying, no right turns even though no traffic – all make short commutes LONG and pollution far worse as we all sit sit sit aggravated and frustrated whether in a taxi or a car...
Why did they put most of the bike share depots right in traffic?
We could probably use more public washrooms.
Where are the electric vehicle chargers?
