Vancouver resident here. A great deal of the city of Vancouver and surrounding Lower Mainland are suburbs. The mixed-zoned areas tend to be some of the most expensive and have been gentrified to hell or are in the process of doing so.

Vancouver also has some of the worst traffic in Canada (and North America, if I remember right) and most of the buses here get stuck in gridlock traffic and are frequently late. Our passenger train system, the SkyTrain, is our best option but it is limited in where it has stations and Vancouver’s immense wealth disparity and poor treatment of homeless often leaves the SkyTrain in a state of filth or feeling unsafe.

I’ve lived here all my life and will likely have to leave soon. Vancouver is not a livable city by any means; it’s one of the most expensive places to live in North America. This is a very beautiful city with many amazing places to see and visit but it has a lot of darkness and suffering under that thin surface and less than nothing is being done about it. For every beautiful tourist destination there are numerous streets full of homeless camps, littered with feces, and drug addicts stumbling around without any help.