Real Estate - It can be cripplingly expensive to own a place here, and once you do it’s hard to just sit back and enjoy it because there’s a good chance that you will:
a) turn into one of those dinks who’s always talking about real estate.
b) take flak from your peers for “conforming”.
c) be subjected to pissing contests by the aforementioned dinks who desperately want to know if they have “out-invested” you.
d) a combination of the above.

Sluggery - Assertive go-getters beware! Vancouver is somewhat of a gathering place for slackers from across the country, the result being that the average ambition level in Vancouver resides well below that of any city that I’ve spent time in. Including the Ontario town of population 7,500 where I grew up. A welcome change of pace? An infuriating exercise in patience and tolerance? Decide for yourself.

The Olympics - Vancouver residents have been awarded the privilege of watching in shock and awe while our city and province throw away hundreds of millions of our tax dollars on a tacky party that most of us won’t attend and is basically guaranteed to lose money. What can we look forward to in return? Reduced funding for vital social and health services, astronomical real estate prices, accelerated gentrification, and to be treated like unwanted stepchildren in February 2010. Extra bonus points for anyone who owns a business on Cambie Street.

Drug-Fuelled Rougery - No surprises here. Leave something in plain sight in your car? Might as well throw it in the garbage and then smash your car window yourself. Also part and parcel of Vancouver’s vibrant street-drug trade are the gun-toting thugs who will shoot you dead if you let on that you know how insecure and pathetic they are.

The VPD - I’m a pretty clean-living guy who’s had minimal dealings with the law. One ticket for speeding, one for an illegal right turn, a handful of verbal warnings for skating downtown Toronto, and that’s about it. I have friends and parents of friends who are/were cops. I’ve never had a deep-seated dislike for the police. But it’s different here. You’ve got to watch it with some of these Vancouver cops… they’ll kick your ass. Everyone’s seen it. It sure makes me stay the hell away from them if I see them, maybe that’s their strategy.

Small city = less to do - Just like the Toronto and Montreal people tell us, compare our scenes and Vancouver comes out pretty poorly. We’re a small city after all, what do we have to lay claim to really? Blasphemy’s reign of terror… 20+ skateparks… Malcolm Lowry wrote Under the Volcano here… The Vancouver International Jazz Festival… 3 local ski hills… Strapping Young Lad… The Bowl Series… Music Waste… John Fluevog… the Whisky quadrilogy… DOA… Black Mountain… the best mountain bike trails in the world… The Barrier Kult… Douglas Coupland… wait… what was I saying?

The Mouldy Sponge Factor - The stereotypical Vancouver gripe. There are times when you might not see the sun for two weeks. Fashionistas are faced with the harsh reality that Gore-Tex is functional. Your house and car will have moss and mould growing on them. This is likely a large part of why Vancouver is still considerably cheaper than San Francisco.

Vancouver movers

How to Pack

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1. Use new rigid corrugated cartons
2. Check the Gross Weight Limit on the bottom of the box and do not exceed
3. Pack securely with each item wrapped separately with shipping foam, bubble wrap or other shipping material (2 inches between carton walls and goods inside)
4. Protect sharp and pointed objects with added shipping material
5. Separate glass containers with corrugated dividers
6. Ship boxes separately – do not bind together
7. Secure the lids on liquid filled containers (seal liquid filled containers in plastic bags or packs to prevent spillage) and ensure safety caps on plastic bottles