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Re: finally moving to vancouver after years of wanting to

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Originally Posted by turlough (Post 11729022)

Where about do you live then if you dislike maple ridge so much. I've not heard alot of positive comments from you so far I'd like to hear some positives aswell as negatives

We live pretty much downtown in a quiet neighbourhood.

I've spent a huge amount of time in and around Maple Ridge over the past 10 to 15 yrs as that's where my wife's family were born and inbred.

Maple Ridge positives:

It's not abbortsford
It's not Mission
It's not Coquitlam
With minimal effort you can hike along some nice trails (beware the bears)
With minimal effort you can head to a number of Lakes to swin
Houses are relatively cheaper to buy and rent when compared to other areas
The schools are "ok"
If you want to live rural, you can do so relatively cheaply when compared to other areas in and around Vancouver
Bruce's Market

Maple Ridge Negatives:

It's a tedious commute if you work downtown regularly
It has a large element of homelessness
It has a large element of drugs and drug users
It's very rednecky in areas
Choices of restaurants are very poor
It rains a LOT when compared to other areas due to the proximity to mountains
Other than the mountains, it's a really ugly place
Far too many strip malls

Personally, i wouldn't choose to live there. That said, if i were moving from an area such as the Brandsholme Estate in Hull, Lewisham, or Slough, it would be appealing.

Re: finally moving to vancouver after years of wanting to

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Originally Posted by KerryCullen1987 (Post 11729019)

My husband eats a lot I suppose lol! I found a site where you can compare costs of living between UK towns and and Ca provinces and it seems on there that meals out are cheaper but groceries are more expensive. It's good to know actual facts on eating out there as this something we enjoy doing as a family and here in the UK we don't go out to dinner as often as we would like

Which website? There's a particularly useless one called something like 'Numbeo' - if it's that one then take the figures on it with a very large pinch of salt!

Folks on BE in the area you're helping to move to will always help you out with cost of living if you can't find recent threads.

HTH.