Q: I'm a 22 y/o working student here in NYC and though I love it and will miss friends- I would love to move somewhere different to finish up school. NYC is great though expensive and commute times between work, school and home consume a large chunk of each day. How do you think Vancouver will be? How is the job market? I'm a nanny here and love it- make $14 an hour.. Is it similar there? Also- dating and people? I have friends and someone here but still not worth the daily struggles!! Thanks for the input!!
A: I'll get blasted for this, but sorry, gang- Van licks. I lived there for thirteen years, recently returned a month ago, and can't wait to leave again! I watched it slide from a cool place into a vulgar, self-indulgent, arrogant, money-and-sports-and hiphop obsessed cliquey rat-race. There is SO much crime, and the drug thing is COMPLETELY out of control- (hey dooods- let's get stoned...)- people shooting up and smoking crack EVERYWHERE out in the open and nobody does anything about it. It's got one of the worst heroin problems anywhere in the world. There are needles all over the streets and parks. And now the bike gangs are setting up meth labs to go along with all the other drug problems. There have been thirteen killings since early October. There is currently an all-out gang war over drug turf. There are TONS of gangs, and they are doing killings every week. It's got air pollution like LA because of the mountains around it. The traffic is horrible. It's gotten SO expensive since the Olympics were announced. For entertainment, walk down Granville street on a weekend night and watch the bar brawls. There is no vacancy anyplace. Theft and vandalism is rampant, and it's not just the hoardes of roaming junkies that do it. It's got the poorest postal code in North America. 97 percent of the prostitutes in the DT Eastside are HIV positive. It's FULL of flakes and nuts and conspiracy/new-age freaks (Meusli city!)- you can't walk ten feet without somebody panhandling you or having someone's radical empowerment agenda shoved in your face. The medical system in BC has been cannibalised- there is no longer even a healthcare office here- you have to call Victoria! All the scummy streetpunks from the rest of Canada come here to live on the sidewalks and beg for drug change with their dogs ( poor animals- they deserve a real home!!) because it is warmer here. People say how great Vancouver is- I'm sorry to sound so negative, but they are just not looking at it objectively- they are blinded by the myth of the West Coast lifestyle, and by the beauty of the natural surroundings. I'm leaving in a month, good riddance, and I don't care what anyone says about my opinion. If you are rich, then you'll probably love it.This city has great nature around it, a lot of art and music, good location, but the city itself has lost so much quality of life, in my opinion. I'm moving to Europe.
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