I just left Vancouver after many years of living there.
It is a ticking time bomb, a city of bandaid solutions and paradoxes. Beauty is consumed by ugliness everywhere you look. Truly it is a communist nightmare of socialism and gibs-me-dat. It is Canada's Portland but with an even larger economic divide.
Vancouver is SOULESS. It has zero identity beyond "look at the mountains and ignore the syringes". Culture is non-existent beyond cookie-cutter boutiques for furnishing your condo with overpriced 'rustic yet modern' home furnishings and 'funky' craft beer establishments (which are all owned by the same 'entertainment group').
Vancouver feels like going to Disneyland but even the rides are shitty.
Until recently the major homeless encampment was at Oppenheimer park. That encampment was broken up (after a woman was kidnapped off the street and held in a tent and raped for 14 hours) and relocated to Strathcona park. Now there are reports in East Van of a serial rapist and drug zombies everywhere robbing and assaulting people.
I just left Vancouver after many years of living there.
It is a ticking time bomb, a city of bandaid solutions and paradoxes. Beauty is consumed by ugliness everywhere you look. Truly it is a communist nightmare of socialism and gibs-me-dat. It is Canada's Portland but with an even larger economic divide.
Vancouver is SOULESS. It has zero identity beyond "look at the mountains and ignore the syringes". Culture is non-existent beyond cookie-cutter boutiques for furnishing your condo with overpriced 'rustic yet modern' home furnishings and 'funky' craft beer establishments (which are all owned by the same 'entertainment group').
Vancouver feels like going to Disneyland but even the rides are shitty.
Right now the situation is at Strathcona park.
Until recently the major homeless encampment was at Oppenheimer park. That encampment was broken up (after a woman was kidnapped off the street and held in a tent and raped for 14 hours) and relocated to Strathcona park. Now there are reports in East Van of a serial rapist and drug zombies everywhere robbing and assaulting people.
Do not miss.