Well I decided after the success of meeting expats in the States through this site I would try to get a group together who live in Vancouver.

As this is now a permanent move for us and it does not seem so easy to meet people and I thought there maybe others in the same boat.

So the idea of trying to start a social group to do anything from snowshoeing, hiking, having a meal, coffee or just meeting up for a walk..



(Hopefully I have placed this in the right place)

I like that idea, where in Vancouver are you?

We are Downtown, I started

"The Downtown Vancouver Social Club" on Facebook as a public group and was trying to get that going so thought this maybe a good way to recruit

(It is of course not in anyway essential to live Downtown to be a part of it)

Like getting blood out of a stone ...

I hope it's not going to be that hard!

Nice to meet you We also left South London

It sounds like a good idea. Though I have to say I've never actually met up with anyone off the interweb before!

Good luck with organizing

What we need is a picnic.

In this weather ? Or a boat trip - hint hint

Will Lululemon yoga pants be mandatory or optional for any meet ups?

Only ones that haven't been recalled!

It goes something like this. Lots of people complain about a lack of "pub culture" in Vancouver, and that they are missing the "British sense of humour." A newbie arrives and says, "let's arrange a knees up somewhere." "Yes, let's," dozens of people reply, "we'll come."

Newbie thinks this is great, but this many people will take over the pub. Newbie books a function room in a downtown pub. Newbie starts a thread encouraging everyone to say they are coming. Lots do.

Over the next few weeks the thread has lots of posts, mostly of the, "damn, something has come up, I can't make it'" type.

Come the night of the knees up newbie and a solitary friend spend a quiet evening in a huge expensive function room looking, to all the world, like Billy-no-mates.

I met one of my best mates on a ex pat forum. Though now she's buggering off back to Blighty :-(

I am Downtown (well South Granville) if you're thinking drinks Joe Fortes does $5 glasses of wine on a Friday