Oink

They do rather and it is irritating.

If you don't have skis or a boat, Vancouver is bloody boring.

Aviator

Nowadays it's the cultures that I find more interesting, never much admired buildings, art or stuff like that. Raffles maybe the exception, but it was more the atmosphere than anything else. Don't remember ever going somewhere and looking in awe at a building, but the Grand Canyon, Zion, Ayers Rock, Angel Falls, the wild open spaces and rivers of Canada are something else. Places like Stone Henge hold a mystique, the history of the cultures that occupied some of the older buildings hold an interest.

Airport lights were always a welcoming sight after a long trip. There have been times when I was thankful to find a bit of level asphalt (level anything actually). When I was younger perhaps I had a different perspective. Outlooks change with age and life experiences, what seemed important at one time can fade to mediocrity when one sees what is really important, Maybe that's what makes me a bit of a cynic.

I guess if I had to pick my favourite places Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Sydney, Chicago. Most places I went to were cities, but even on a layover would venture out into the more rural areas or delve into some of the local history, if I had time.

dboy

it is south facing, but i have windows all around so, see metrotown off to the east, downtown/ coal harbour to the south (although there are some buildings in the way), west van to the west and lions gate then all the mountains to the north west. WIll be hot in the summer though. Lots of natural light, even on a day like this.

Oink

If you have a balcony you can grow some tomatoes.

The4BellsLondon

I can see the mountains from my house just!!

Butch Cassidy

I can see Winnipeg from my new place

supafly

yeah vancouver is an awful place.. anyone thinking of coming here should definitely give it a miss.

Bikini bottom uk

Having been here 3 years from the UK and being Black....all true mate....but I think there is a good reason for the lack of BP....uummmm

Bikini bottom uk

Ohh DB...don't get me started, we can have a very long conversation on that subject. After being here for a while..I can see why.

dboy

there are also very few latinos here too.

strength

why did you leave the other cities that have sufficient numbers of blacks. Been thinking about all the 3 cities you live in as well as saskatoon. pm me

brizzle

Evidently, you have your reasons and experiences and I'm not going to disagree with you, but there are more historical/regional reasons too, I think. Most N.W USA states i.e Washington, Oregon, Idaho don't have many black people either. BC is pretty isolated from the larger E.Canada black communities. Caribbean people tend to be drawn where established communities are i.e Toronto. Haitians are drawn to Quebec for language reasons. Not many black people in AB, SK, MB etc either. Sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience here, maybe it's better in Toronto ?

I have noticed an increasing number of latinos here in Vancouver over the last year or two, although still a relatively small number. Obviously CIC noticed it too and imposed a visa regime on Mexico !!

Butch Cassidy

Blacks in TO make up 8.4% of the population, in Portland 6.6%. IMO not really a substantial difference.
in fact in Seattle its 7.8% so hardly any difference at all

The4BellsLondon

Hm - odd - most of the peeps I am working with are Latino or Latino in heritage . .

dboy

I've had a couple of investigations lately, where we had to find spanish speaking members to assist, still pretty rare though, Mandarin and Cantonese is much more of an issue.