Where is the best place to live in Canada?

[KickTheBobo]

Vancouver is fantastic if you really enjoy having zero nightlife, extreme roller-blading, 360 days of rain a year and literally watching people die in the street from drug addictions while you sip your cruelty-free chai latte.

Thumbs down, Vancouver.

Having lived in the 'Couv for three years, I gotta agree. Don't get me wrong: I met some of my best buddies there and had some good times, but I just couldn't jive with the scene there. If Seattle and New York are "Rock & Roll" towns, then Vancouver is a "Deep Sexy House" town. That's the best way I can put it.

[gravy boat]

left there because I was in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do.

How about Newbridge, NJ? Lots going on.

[emma]

If Seattle and New York are "Rock & Roll" towns, then Vancouver is a "Deep Sexy House" town.

I hear this is the slogan they're putting on all the Olympics stuff.

[KickTheBobo]

If Seattle and New York are "Rock & Roll" towns, then Vancouver is a "Deep Sexy House" town.

I hear this is the slogan they're putting on all the Olympics stuff.

guess who is playing at the opening ceremony:

[Bryan]

guess who is playing at the opening ceremony:

That guy in the middle looks like a depraved 14-year-old.

I was going to post to ask who they are, but I see from quoting you that they're the Swollen Members. I'm still not sure who they are, despite being Canadian myself.

[emma]

If Seattle and New York are "Rock & Roll" towns, then Vancouver is a "Deep Sexy House" town.

I hear this is the slogan they're putting on all the Olympics stuff.

guess who is playing at the opening ceremony:

I hear they "always bring it home."

[Julie]

Saskatoon?!?!  Don't judge.

Steve from Saskatoon

I thought the old man on Corner Gas was funny and I liked the print maker from Saskatchewan.

[Gregory]

guess who is playing at the opening ceremony:

I was going to post to ask who they are, but I see from quoting you that they're the Swollen Members. I'm still not sure who they are, despite being Canadian myself.

They're on the soundtrack to a lot of snowboarding videos, if that helps you any.

[SJK]

Saskatoon?!?!  Don't judge.

Steve from Saskatoon

I thought the old man on Corner Gas was funny and I liked the print maker from Saskatchewan.

Well, I guess if you came from the middle of nowhere Australia...the middle of nowhere Canada isn't high on the list of places to live. I've lived all over Canada, and truly loved each place I called home. For me, it had more to do with family and friends then anything else. Just my opinion.

Thanks for weighing in Julie, it's appreciated. I've never watched Corner Gas, I have had the pleasure of meeting Lorne Cardinal through a mutual friend. The beginning and end of my brush with the moderately well known!

[Phantom Hugger]

Van has nice weather, but unless you're rich (or a heroin addict) there's not much there.

I lived in Vancouver between 95-2000, and while there is truth to this statement you can also live there as a regular slob and not go broke. Brace yourself for rampant drug use and new agey/magical thinking flakes. Also, a public transportation dreamland.

(come to think of it, I did go broke for a while and lived a few months in my van.....weird to think of that situation now)

R.I.P.  Niagra Hotel.

[emma]

Yes! I forgot that about Vancouver. All the hippies.

My stepdad lived in Vancouver in the Days Of His Youth. He knew this woman who ran a store called the Crystal Hut or possibly the Crystal Shack. She sold lots of rocks that were supposed to make you healthy or rich if you ate them or kept them with you or something. She made TONS OF MONEY. The point of this story is that Vancouver is the kind of place where you can make a lot of money running a place that sells spiritually enhancing rocks. Maybe this is a plus for you? Maybe not?

[Gilly]

No mention of Winnipeg? That's the closest to Minneapolis (for a city anyway) and I've never been there. What's it like? Kind of looks like Canada's version of Kansas City.

[emma]

No mention of Winnipeg? That's the closest to Minneapolis (for a city anyway) and I've never been there. What's it like? Kind of looks like Canada's version of Kansas City.

I've never been to Kansas City, but Winnipeg is freezing fucking cold, has a bunch of problems with poverty and crime, and the roads are terrible. But it is full of nice people, and there are a lot of anarchists! Is that similar?

I am running amok through this thread! I should probably say that I have lived in Toronto for basically all of my life, except for very brief stints in Montreal and The Fax. I have been to many other places for longish visits, but I don't know how much that counts for in the long run. Plus I have already made myself look (more) ridiculous in this thread by making a swollen members reference, so if I were you I wouldn't trust me.

[Gilly]

More like Detroit then? I was thinking Kansas City because it's a big city only in the fact that it's the metro area of it's state and there isn't anything that makes it special.

[Dorvid Barnas]

I enjoyed visiting Vancouver, but I think I'd have to live somewhere in Ontario, just so I could see plays at the Shaw Festival and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and I'm sure any number of companies around Toronto.  The theatre scene up there is STRONG! (Grote?  yes?)