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Old Jul 29th 2015, 3:00 pm
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Never mind assemble it, could he pronounce or spell it?
Just did: IKEA and breakfast. I think they're both correct.
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Old Jul 29th 2015, 3:16 pm
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Originally Posted by dbd33
I don't think that's in Vancouver. Just this week someone in Vancouver, who was sipping a kombucha and explaining how affluent the city is, told me "you'd have to go to the suburbs, maybe to IKEA, before you'd see an off brand stroller".
The IKEA we were at is in Burnaby. I'm not sure if this is considered part of Vancouver. Mind you, from what I saw you can keep Burnaby too!
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Originally Posted by rivingtonpike
The IKEA we were at is in Burnaby. I'm not sure if this is considered part of Vancouver. Mind you, from what I saw you can keep Burnaby too!
It's Coquitlam. Much worse thank Burnaby, although much better than Maple Ridge.
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Old Jul 29th 2015, 4:06 pm
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Actually the one we were at is in Richmond.

3320 Jacombs Rd.
Richmond,
British Columbia
V6V 1Z6

It was the shopping mall I was dragged to afterwards that was in Burnaby.
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Originally Posted by rivingtonpike
Actually the one we were at is in Richmond.

3320 Jacombs Rd.
Richmond,
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V6V 1Z6

It was the shopping mall I was dragged to afterwards that was in Burnaby.
Sorry to hear that
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Old Jul 29th 2015, 4:29 pm
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Sorry to hear that
I know. I feel my pain. It's a whole little piece of paradise I've carved out for myself here!
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Originally Posted by rivingtonpike
Just did: IKEA and breakfast. I think they're both correct.
Don't they call their food things like BÖRJE or ESBJÖRN or is that just the furniture?
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Originally Posted by dbd33
I don't think that's in Vancouver. Just this week someone in Vancouver, who was sipping a kombucha and explaining how affluent the city is, told me "you'd have to go to the suburbs, maybe to IKEA, before you'd see an off brand stroller".
Ikea is in Coquitlam and Richmond.

Vancouver is quickly becoming the city of the wealthy and elite, seems the plan is to get rid of the lower class and lower middle class as the city is well beyond what they can afford.
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Vancouver is quickly becoming the city of the wealthy and elite
Nope. Wealthy on the outside, debt on the inside. It's amusing really.
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Debt they may have but bet they make a lot more then we do.

It's all relative really, to someone who makes 15 or 20 k a year, someone making 60k could be seen as wealthy but then you have people making 300k and claim to be barely making it..lol



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Nope. Wealthy on the outside, debt on the inside. It's amusing really.
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Debt they may have but bet they make a lot more then we do
No offence but my 3yr old son appears to make more than you
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Old Jul 30th 2015, 5:46 am
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Parking in Vancouver is expensive? How cute...

Only New York tops Calgary in downtown parking rates
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Originally Posted by el_richo
No offence but my 3yr old son appears to make more than you
I would not be surprised......lol...
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Originally Posted by Photoplex
Parking in Vancouver is expensive? How cute...

Only New York tops Calgary in downtown parking rates
That is monthly parking though. Different then short term hourly parking.

Those paying 300 per month likely end up paying less per hour.
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
That is monthly parking though. Different then short term hourly parking.

Those paying 300 per month likely end up paying less per hour.
If the monthly parking is second only to NY in North America, can you imagine the daily or hourly rates? The cheapest daily rate to my office is $29, and that's the early bird rate. And half the time it's full by 7am when I get there, meaning parking in the next lot over at $34.

Not to mention that there's waiting lists at most parking lots and parkades for monthly parking.

Parking in this city is hell. Expensive hell.

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