Nothing wrong with Richmond. It was your comment that it is predominantly Chinese that was wrong.

Well if it's not majority Chinese, it's pretty damn close. Of course I am including Chinese-Canadians in that bracket.

It is roughly 40% white, 40% yellow and 20% brown. Not all yellow people are Chinese or Chinese Canadians.

To be fair, Richmond has the best Chinese food around.

As somebody who has spent years in Richmond, the population is diverse and the demographics vary depending on where you are in Richmond. There is, of course, one part of Richmond where there are a lot of Chinese/Taiwanese/Hong Kong style restaurants, shopping plazas, and supermarkets, but not all of Richmond is like that.

Here's a good breakdown of the demographics.

http://www.richmond.ca/__shared/asse...icity20987.pdf

Going back to the OP, I do think that Richmond would make the most sense. It is an island in the middle of the Fraser River. Beautiful views from the dyke trails and farmland to the east of the city. There is certainly urban sprawl in parts of Richmond, but there are also many parts, like the Google Street View I linked to above, are fairly established, beautiful residential communities with lush gardens and good schools - a wonderful place to raise a family. The nicer areas (aesthetically) are in Western Richmond, I've found (off No 1 Road). No need to live further away if you don't have to. Commuting to/from Richmond isn't fun because of all the bridges. Bridges = bottlenecks. Richmond to Maple Ridge, for example, would be my idea of a nightmare.

Good PDF Lychee.

Central Richmond (City & Cambies) looks 60% Chinese to me. And that's not counting other Asian ethnicities. Roughly 80,000 Chinese in a region of 180,000 people means it is predominantly Chinese. As originally suggested.

You are making me a liar. But when that data is expressed as fractions of 100% the total of yellow skins comes to 51.7%. 43.6% identifying as of Chinese origin. 34.2% white and only 8% as Indo-Canadians. It seems a lot more now.

I know it is a long time since I took maths but in the good old days less than 50% did not equal predominantly.

It can certainly feel that way if you shop at the north end of No.3 road. However, there is more to Richmond than No.3 road.

JonBoy if was over there I would take you for lunch at Aberdeen Mall, and you would see that 99.9% of the people in the mall are Asian (or what you seem to term "yellow")! Granted one mall is not Richmond, but most of No. 3 Road is similarly balanced. As I am sure you know!!

Then they put that ugly concrete monstrosity of a Skytrain track right down the main area. Beautiful British Colombia my arse.

I know the Aberdeen Mall well and have been in many, many times. I can quite believe that some of these times I was the only white person in there. That said, I've never see an Asian person in the British Home Store in Steveston.

All of which proves nothing.

What do you expect, they are trying to be more like Bangkok!

They did exactly this in Bangkok in a number of places; Silom for example. It's always dark there, even in the middle of the day.

I really want to check out the Aberdeen Mall and the night market.

A number of places? or the entire BKK Skytrain line ?! But given how hot it is there it might not be such a bad thing.