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

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.