Originally Posted by
wolfchild
I don't care how beautiful Vancouver is or how many bike lanes they have, that city is just too expensive to live in...LCF may be a necessity for many people in Vancouver because the cost of living is so high. One of the reasons why it's expensive to live there is because British Columbia implemented that damn carbon tax few years ago and the cost of living just shot up.
I looked at the prices of homes in Vancouver and they pretty much in line with New York / New Jersey. I found a number of homes under 200K which is affordable for a city that size.
If you're going to live in a nice city like Vancouver, you better have a good paying job. That requires going to a good school, getting top grades and advanced degrees in medicine, law and engineering.
Any place that's worth living is not going to come cheap.