Best City in the World
#166
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 14,227
Re: Best City in the World
This happened just as I was about to post something so sarcastic that it would have been truly awesome to behold. It all seems kind of pointless now though, and I feel kind of grubby.
Never mind, I shall now find another thread to use as vehicle for waving my enormous e-penis in other peoples faces ... oh yeah...
Never mind, I shall now find another thread to use as vehicle for waving my enormous e-penis in other peoples faces ... oh yeah...
#167
Re: Best City in the World
This happened just as I was about to post something so sarcastic that it would have been truly awesome to behold. It all seems kind of pointless now though, and I feel kind of grubby.
Never mind, I shall now find another thread to use as vehicle for waving my enormous e-penis in other peoples faces ... oh yeah...
Never mind, I shall now find another thread to use as vehicle for waving my enormous e-penis in other peoples faces ... oh yeah...
#168
Binned by Muderators
Joined: Jul 2007
Location: White Rock BC
Posts: 11,682
Re: Best City in the World
Got it, at last:
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...duse/index.htm
quite parky. 10% parky. Not at as parky as London, NYC, or Washington but then it is surrounded by wilderness. And beaches.
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...duse/index.htm
quite parky. 10% parky. Not at as parky as London, NYC, or Washington but then it is surrounded by wilderness. And beaches.
#169
Re: Best City in the World
Do you have a figure for just the City of London?
#176
Forum Regular
Joined: Aug 2010
Location: North Vancouver, BC
Posts: 134
Re: Best City in the World
Quite an interesting thread going here, thought I'd add my 2 cents
Having lived in Bristol, Bournemouth and now Vancouver and visited London many times, I would defiantly agree with Vancouver being voted most livable place in the world.
Personally I don't think its all down to green spaces, but don't get me wrong they are great. For me it's the huge amount of recreational activities available to us. We take full advantage of having 3 ski hills in the local area in the winter and even in the summer they are great places to visit or cycle down through the awesome bike trails. The beaches in the summer are great and also the many lakes we have access to for swimming, boating, fishing or for a nice BBQ on the beaches. Stanley park is a lovely place to visit and the sea wall a great running facility. Transit is very reliable and cheap compared to the prices I was paying in the UK - train & bus to work used to cost me 9 quid a day! We find we can afford to eat out a lot more over here and the variety of different cuisine in Vancouver is taken full advantage of by us The people we have met so far are so friendly and go out of there way to help you, as opposed to some places in the UK where you try to avoid eye contact with people at all costs and when a stranger starts up conversation with you automatically think they want something from you or they have an ulterior motive.
I'm not slagging off any other city I'm just saying in my experience in comparison to the other places i have lived Vancouver provides so much more for me and my partner to do and see, we have been in Vancouver for 15 months and have so far not struggled to find something new and exciting to do on our weekends off. Which to me makes Vancouver the most livable place in the world for me and may OH
Having lived in Bristol, Bournemouth and now Vancouver and visited London many times, I would defiantly agree with Vancouver being voted most livable place in the world.
Personally I don't think its all down to green spaces, but don't get me wrong they are great. For me it's the huge amount of recreational activities available to us. We take full advantage of having 3 ski hills in the local area in the winter and even in the summer they are great places to visit or cycle down through the awesome bike trails. The beaches in the summer are great and also the many lakes we have access to for swimming, boating, fishing or for a nice BBQ on the beaches. Stanley park is a lovely place to visit and the sea wall a great running facility. Transit is very reliable and cheap compared to the prices I was paying in the UK - train & bus to work used to cost me 9 quid a day! We find we can afford to eat out a lot more over here and the variety of different cuisine in Vancouver is taken full advantage of by us The people we have met so far are so friendly and go out of there way to help you, as opposed to some places in the UK where you try to avoid eye contact with people at all costs and when a stranger starts up conversation with you automatically think they want something from you or they have an ulterior motive.
I'm not slagging off any other city I'm just saying in my experience in comparison to the other places i have lived Vancouver provides so much more for me and my partner to do and see, we have been in Vancouver for 15 months and have so far not struggled to find something new and exciting to do on our weekends off. Which to me makes Vancouver the most livable place in the world for me and may OH
#178
Re: Best City in the World
Vancouver is a lovely city which gets even lovelier in the long warm summers but my only big gripe are the beach areas. While there's a lot of them, they don't have very good amenities. I'm not talking about donkeys on the sand but it would it hurt them to put in a nice pier or a small funfair of note? We used to go to Clacton when were kids and we used have loads of fun.
See what I mean? Unless you want to watch people's floppy bits or smoke dope with the rest of the wackos on Wreck Beach here's bugger all seasidey stuff to do for kids!
Vancouver Seaside
See what I mean? Unless you want to watch people's floppy bits or smoke dope with the rest of the wackos on Wreck Beach here's bugger all seasidey stuff to do for kids!
Vancouver Seaside
Last edited by Oink; Feb 24th 2011 at 7:12 pm.
#179
Re: Best City in the World
Vancouver is a lovely city which gets even lovelier in the long warm summers but my only big gripe are the beach areas. While there's a lot of them, they don't have very good amenities. I'm not talking about donkeys on the sand but it would it hurt them to put in a nice pier or a small funfair of note? We used to go to Clacton when were kids and we used have loads of fun.
See what I mean? Unless you want to watch people's floppy bits or smoke dope with the rest of the wackos on Wreck Beach here's bugger all seasidey stuff to do for kids!
Vancouver Seaside
See what I mean? Unless you want to watch people's floppy bits or smoke dope with the rest of the wackos on Wreck Beach here's bugger all seasidey stuff to do for kids!
Vancouver Seaside
#180
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 14,227
Re: Best City in the World
Whilst I think "defiantly agreeing" is quite appropriate in this thread I think you might need a bigger sample size.