Somebody wrote that Vancouver is expensive because it is a "global scale city" like New York and Paris and London.

Hello?

Vancouver is not a "global scale city" (roll eyes).

Vancouver is a safe deposit box for millionaires who worked in China or who are working in China.

Drive through Richmond and the West Side of Vancouver and South Surrey. That influx ain't global, unless your definition of global is anyone with roots, of the past 30 years, being within a thousand miles of Shanghai...

... and yes, it is the money from those folks that has driven house prices in Vancouver to dozens of times the average annual local income.

But go on dreaming that Vancouver is a world class global scale city like New York and Paris and London if it makes you fell good... since oh yes, standing on Granville and 41st, with so many big-city urban entertainment offerings just footsteps away, it is just like being in Manhattan or on the Champs Elysees (roll eyes)...