Brutally Honest One Sentence Descriptions Of 24 Vancouver Neighbourhoods
Vancouver is, no doubt, a beautiful and vibrant city with people of all different backgrounds and all different walks of life. But of course, birds of a feather flock together, and what you get is neighbourhoods with clusters of certain types of people.
Of course, it wouldn't be fair to sum up these neighbourhoods all on my own. So I went out and asked you guys, all around the city, to sum up your own and each others' neighbourhoods in one sentence, and this is what I got.
Is your neighbourhood on the list?
Coal Harbour
Suits and $58 million luxury apartments.
West End
Davie St, a lot of rainbows, people who work in hospitality, and 2 AM coke parties.
Gastown
Hipsters, coffee, fashion photo shoots and tourists crowded around a boring steam clock.
Chinatown
Gentrification at its finest.
Hastings/Sunrise
Stay tuned for more gentrification.
Strathcona
"Omg, the rent here is so cheap!!! What's the catch...oh....."
Yaletown
Yuppies, bougie bars and cougar moms or millennials who have been on way too many Tinder dates.
Kits
White people in flip flops and Lululemon going to Whole Foods.
West Point Grey
OG Vancouverites and Chinese investment properties.
Dunbar/Southlands
Newly weds and nearly deads, mega mansions, and a Dairy Queen (ask for the Dunbar Special).
Granville Island
Art students, tourists, and elementary school field trips.
Kerrisdale
A quaint neighbourhood bustling with old people, Asian kids and lambos....oh yes, and high tea dates.
Oakridge
A parking lot for Richmond kids going into downtown.
Shaughnessy
Private schools and snobby rich kids.
Killarney/Champlain Heights
"Stick to the main roads and don't go behind the rec centre."
Joyce-Collingwood
Aspiring NBA players and the best pizza in the world.
Mount Pleasant
Hipsters, gluten-free everything, and then glutenous craft beer.
False Creek
Daddy's money millennials, Earnest Ice Cream and Science World (Yes, Science World, not the Telus World of Science).
Richmond
Chinese people and the airport.
West Vancouver
10,000 square feet/person and a 7/11 that isn't open 24/7.
North Vancouver
Lonsdale Quay and hiking pictures #explorebc #vancity #fitfam #aspiringphotographer
South Burnaby
Drug dealers and pho.
North Burnaby
Poor transit and a well hidden oil refinery.
Lougheed
Koreans who know how to make freaking amazing fried chicken.
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