Read the article with interest as the same thing happened to me. Moved out to take a job with Telus and lasted 2 miserable years. For all its physical beauty, Vancouver was only ever superficially friendly in my mind. Try to dig deeper in making friends and I got no where. And I make friends pretty easily. And once I realised housing was going to be an uphill battle I gave up and moved back to Ontario. And pretty much everyone I knew, bar one or two from overseas, have left also. Loved just about everywhere else in BC, just not Vancouver. If you've found your niche there then great. I'm happy for you. Just wasn't for me.