Vancouver "best city to live in"

House/appt. burglaries are everyday stories, sadly. You kinda need an alarm system if you plan to live in Vancouver and own a large collection of music, and want it to stay large.

highest costing real estate.

Vancouver is weird. It's pretty and all but everyone's way too segregated and laid-back for super special things to happen. I mean I love the Organ but they are signed to that low-budget-Jesus-lookin ass fool Chad Kroeger's label, Black Mountain is awesome but then they tour with Coldplay and all their interview questions are about Coldplay. All the up-and-coming bands aren't considered made until they get a good Pitchfork review (seriously, that's a huge barometer here). The city needs to get raped quick so that's where I come in.

Also, I was a little harsh on Calgary upthread. I'm sorry. I know that I should stop judging everything by 1997 standards. And 1997 wasn't even that bad. I had some good times. And these days, there are actually a lot of really good bands in Calgary: The Cape May, Falconhawk, that other one...

Calgary is just plain depressing, though the area along the Bow downtown is nice. Too much concrete, too many scary cookie cutter suburbs. It's nice that they're close to the mountains and they have a few old buildings downtown, though nothing in comparison to Winnipeg. Thanks to our "raging urban ghetto" and October snowstorms we probably ranked pretty far down.

"though nothing in comparison to Winnipeg."

I've never been to Winnipeg, but I've always enjoyed the idea of it. It's one of those places that I like in advance. I'm sure I'll love it when I finally get there. I hope they get the Jets back one day...

monocle's list of 25 cities has vancouver at 14. i learned it has 120 starbucks and mountains and "too many bad condo developments and mundane retail outlets." hot damn.

i'm moving there at the end of the month. i want to know, if i'm going to be spending a lot of time at ubc, how far away can i live and still get there without much hassle (via public transit)? can i find an apartment in kitsilano or granville island for under $1500? is granville island an actual island?

I was just in Vancouver recently and left terribly unimpressed. The downtown is extremely crowded and expensive but lacks anything of real interest. The people in the city are overall very weird, but in a bad way. It's beautiful but lacks anything really worth seeing. Even the "cool" areas -- Main St, Commercial Drive -- have way better counterparts in most US cities.

Visit from time to time and think it's one of the best cities anywhere. Unequalled combination of great Chinese food and natural beauty. OK, I guess equalled or bettered in these respects by San Francisco. Unequalled combination of great Chinese food, natural beauty, and the metric system.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/4953901.bin?size=620x400

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/4954578.bin?size=620x400

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/4953825.bin?size=620x400

Vancouver is weird. It's pretty and all but everyone's way too segregated and laid-back for super special things to happen. I mean I love the Organ but they are signed to that low-budget-Jesus-lookin ass fool Chad Kroeger's label, Black Mountain is awesome but then they tour with Coldplay and all their interview questions are about Coldplay. All the up-and-coming bands aren't considered made until they get a good Pitchfork review (seriously, that's a huge barometer here). The city needs to get raped quick so that's where I come in.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, October 5, 2005 4:01 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh yeah, brain-explodingly irritating film school/industry people, militant standoffish hongers, loud murderous indos, endless outdoor adventurists and real estate retards, insecure baby hipsters, too!
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, October 5, 2005 4:04 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

fuckin idiots.

sports!

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/06/16/photos-riots-fire-destruction-after-vancouvers-loss/

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/322904014.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF3XCCKACR3QDMOA&Expires=1308237207&Signature=u6UKxNmNiud2d8x7pdEKZ00Q6%2Bw%3D

whata bunch of dicks - you can hardly blame SEARS for failing to win the cup

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/riot5.jpg wow!

these are all somehow so much funnier because each crazed rioting assailant ironically has VANCOUVER emblazoned on their shirt

"Unruly, booze-fuelled mobs also broke into Sears at Robson and Howe. One looter managed to break into Chapters bookstore, but apparently no one bothered entering."

lol

man i would have looted the shit out of chapters

i teach ESL here and am dreading having to spend the day explaining this to the foreigners

yeah cause violence at sporting events doesn't happen anywhere else in the world

What a buncha jerks.

i'm not sure i've ever heard of a sports riot in japan or hong kong tho...

"SEARS WILL PAY DEARLY!"

all of those riot pics are just hilarious

Just seems like such a North American thing to expand your sports riot to the other places in the city.

This whole phenomenon befuddles me though, tbh. I just don't get why you'd trash your own city, whether your team wins or loses. Theoretically, they should hop a plane and go trash Boston.

Just like the LA riots

I find the L.A. riots to be just a little bit different to these "yay my team won/boo my team lost" riots.

"add me on facebook"

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/riot13.jpg

"punch me in the doucheface"

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/riot17.jpg

aww, I was just about to post that amazing picture

I know i mean in the LA riots they seemed to destroy their own neighborhood instead of the neighborhhod of the people they were angry at - (oh shit I am opening the box of doom saying this sort of thing)

oh noes the pic is gone

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/riot34.jpg

Would smash (windows)

Thats how to riot.

hawt

i predict a riot (in my pants)

that man just won the riot.

smh @ vancouver--what happened to slinking away in defeat?

So cute to see canadians riot. Hilarious

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/riot5.jpg

COME AT ME, EH?

jail is going to be pretty rough on that guy if that's the best agro face he can pull off.

for my next trick I will win all video games!!

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/riot33.jpg?w=940&h=721

i will admit this look p much like fun

lex, after reading a poorly-written Beyonce review

how this didn't happen in miami, like dunking balls into plate glass windows? o yeah miami has no real fans

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/riot1.jpg

lmao @ self censorship, now abt that rioting

polite rioting - only in Canada

i think i walked past that dude before the game

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Vancouver-Riot-Pics-Post-Your-Photos/121837081234162?sk=photos

lex, after reading a poorly-written Beyonce review

uhhhh is this a racial remark?

i thought he was referring to the pic of the guy w/the killer whale but im realizing that i couldve perhaps read that wrong

certainly not intended to be!

unless lex is really a whale, then my apologies

i will admit this look p much like fun

― ice cr?m, Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:55 AM

lex, after reading a poorly-written Beyonce review

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:55 AM

I mean dude I know I've clowned you before lex, but I do like you and I think you might be reading into this in a way that was very much not intended in the spirit of this thread.

i thought he meant the whale guy too

damn am0n... damn!!!!

i will admit this look p much like fun

― ice cr?m, Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:55 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

ya i wouldve gone buck-wild if i was there

for my next trick I will win all video games!!

the fuck is this though

i sort of simultaneously lold and recoiled at that one

just another racist comment in a long line of offensive remarks from jon/via/chi

no that other one was latham green

*unbookmarks thread, backs slowly away*

lol no j/k *rubs hands together greedily*

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=121875327897004&set=a.121875311230339.32100.121837081234162&type=1&ref=nf
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/252887_121875327897004_121837081234162_188048_2883357_n.jpg

http://zipitclean.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/tosh0headerweb1.jpg

thanks Ashley

http://i.imgur.com/A5ftA.png

lol

awww

ty for that, <3 Hark, A Vagrant

XD

amazing

vancouver is the same city that rioted over a guns n roses concert

i mean lol @ vancouver but really who expected anything else

during the game they showed a clip of a bunch of politicians and cops being all were more prepared this time and the city has changed so much since 94 lmao

how this didn't happen in miami, like dunking balls into plate glass windows? o yeah miami has no real fans

― am0n, Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:55 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes, these were real fans. of course.

judging by those photos much of the damage was perpetrated by crusties in party mode

maybe lamp can shed some light on this, why does vancouver like to riot so

i never been there but is has a rep as a quality of lyfe mellow vibes type place

Laidback vibe represses the beast within

http://www.seattlepi.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=1056376&width=628&height=471

Police subdue a man following Game 7 of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey finals, in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, on Wednesday, June 15, 2011.

"get those pants off - he will be powerless!"

lex, after reading a poorly-written Beyonce review

uhhhh is this a racial remark?

Figured it was another remark at the expense of my poorly-written Beyonce review.

maybe lamp can shed some light on this, why does vancouver like to riot so

according to my bf the explanation is 'ppl from surrey'

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmvizqWa9L1qzr2kio1_500.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBtDrcIntk

haha

oh nuts

also
ppl from abbotsford
" " maple ridge
" " ladner
" " delta
" " tsawassen
" " coquitlam

Don't forget Poco, Richmond and Eagle Ridge....anywhere but Vancouver!

'Brock Anton' trending nationally in Canada, hahaha

Brock Anton guy is a known hipster dude around town. But that's not his real name.

Weird. Well most of his friends are at the same high school so I don't think there'll be much trouble finding this dude.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/06/16/137221886/yes-those-people-are-literally-kissing-on-the-ground-in-the-street-amid-a-riot

I hope one day someone refers to "Pulling a Brock Anton"

http://vancityriotcriminals.tumblr.com/photo/1280/6594606056/1/tumblr_lmwcvy6xJl1qlxgl0

It's going to be interesting to see whether or not there are many arrests made or charges laid from all this activity. I keep seeing stuff like "Hope you get raped in jail ASSHOLE!" on these photos of "rioters" (CBC kept calling them "protesters" last night, WTF?), many of them are just posing beside the chaos. The footage is remarkable for the thousands of cameras, phones and folks just vogueing for photos. I mean, look at that pic of the azn dude with the hockey stick in front of the smashed windows. He probably just picked that thing off the ground and posed for like 4 seconds for the photo then peacefully strolled off. Assuming that's his story then there's going to be a lot of people really upset because there's no way that photo will bring him a gang-raping in priz.

http://youtu.be/ONMxKAwSFWw?t=51s

^Vancouver's first social media riot.

re: that kiss - saw another angle where it appears more to be a rescue situation - there's talk of a young woman being stabbed and there's a chance he's applying pressure to her wound, not groping..

really love that canadian stereotypes comic

all the people in these videos holding their phones in front of their faces while this shit is going on look so stupid. god what a proud day for that city.

just another racist comment in a long line of offensive remarks from jon/via/chi

wth?

http://i.imgur.com/725O3.jpg

Trailr park boys visit vancouver

this dude doesn't even like hockey, he just shows up for any riot:

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/riot10.jpg?w=940&h=839

canadian ppl are the most disgusting savages in all the world imo

I mean, look at that pic of the azn dude with the hockey stick in front of the smashed windows. He probably just picked that thing off the ground and posed for like 4 seconds for the photo then peacefully strolled off...

ive been wondering the same abt how easy it will be to convict ppl, but in this case asian dude @ :50 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONMxKAwSFWw

also in that clip, it's just so weird to watch a bunch of angry hockey fans shoout "fuck boston" at...an empty bank of montreal. i really dont understand.

that's the first clip I've watched, are they all like that? are modern riots just like 3 people doing shit and 100 people videotaping it on their cellphones?

seems like it, yeah

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBtDrcIntk

seems asian dude has been arrested: http://www.revscene.net/forums/showpost.php?p=7476067&postcount=939

Jason Li Dipshit

inevitable but still way awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jdp08WgPkk

Good ol' Surrey:

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/253629_10150207179429070_509844069_6717872_7985511_n.jpg

Yes, these were real fans. of course.

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, June 16, 2011 2:18 PM

glad u agree

don't worry, according to the police chief it was just those pesky anarchists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/17/vancouver-kiss-couple-riot-police

The image of the couple lying in the street seemingly locked in a kiss as the Vancouver hockey riots erupted around them has become an internet sensation, but the pair may not have been in the throes of a passionate embrace after all.

After the photo was tweeted and carried on news sites around the world, people have come forward to offer a less romantic explanation of the image, taken by the Canada-based photojournalist Richard Lam.

William, a witness, told the Vancouver Sun the couple were run over by two riot police officers: "The girl who was knocked over landed head first on the pavement with her boyfriend landed partially on top of her," he said. "She was in visible pain, crying, but the two officers gave them a parting shove and moved on. Bystanders went to make sure she was OK."

Another angle of the photo, which the Vancouver Sun reports was sent in by several readers, appears to support William's version of events.

Meanwhile, a woman has contacted the Australian website 9News to claim she is the sister of the man in the photograph, whom she names as 29-year-old Scott Jones, from Perth. Hannah Jones said Scott had been living and working in Vancouver for six months.

She told 9news that lots of his friends had left messages on his Facebook page and he had posted a reply saying: "Classic! This was shortly after the riot police run over the top of us and naturally Alex needed some comforting."

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/248874_192737507444666_100001252547210_562811_5787390_n.jpg

canadian ppl are the most disgusting savages in all the world imo

OTM.

Based on how exceedingly polite all the Canadians I've met irl are, I can't help but imagining the riots being soundtracked by stuff like, "now I'm going to go ahead and smash your window in with my hockey stick, alright? i'm not mad atcha or anything, but I'm pretty riled up over the loss and I promise to feel really bad after. no hard feeling, eh?".

^^ another racist remark, SHEESH.

(kidding! I'm Canadian, I can't even make a 'that's racist' joke without apologizing/feeling bad)

well, y'know, i am a huge racist after all

lol at louis vuiton on craigslist

jon: admitting is your first step to lecovely

probably too far.

ok, now...
http://blog.pumapac.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/thatsracist.gif

http://www.explodingdog.com/drawing/ideservethat.jpg

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2011/06/have-we-reached-era-post-ironic-riot.html

Video surfaces of "kissing couple"

 You know that romantically making out couple at the Vancouver protests the other week? Wasn't so sweet after all. Wasn't staged, either, unfortunately. New video shows the couple just before the photo was shot, and that lovely kiss was in fact a visibly upset Alexandra Thomas being comforted by Scott Jones, after riot cops beat and kicked her while she lay supine on the ground. Despicable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mtURc7mkUg

Pfft. They should have got the fuck out of downtown when shit kicked off like they were being told to. This is hours after the riot started. Anyone left by this point gets no sympathy. Also, that's the tamest cop beating I've ever seen.

yeah i'm not sure that was a "beating," also i find it hard to have sympathy for ANY of them -- that said it was prob unnecessary, yeah

Anyone who doesn't see how these relatively mild, pleasant hockey riots are assiduously managed by law enforcement techniques and who thinks, even for a second, that there was any danger to much of anything, is a boring Vancouverite. No serious injuries. A few cars toppled. A bunch of bros posting "We'll Help in the Clean-Up Effort 2011" shit on Facebook. Yeah. Boring, boring Vancouver.