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City of Vancouver
Category: Public Services & Government Public Services & Government [Edit]
453 12th Ave WVancouver, BC V5Y 1V4
Neighbourhood: Mount Pleasant
(604) 873-7011
5 reviews for City of Vancouver
5 reviews in English
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Review from Roger A.
4/15/2012
I love Vancouver BC!!!!
I have been going to Vancity since 1999!! Used to party at Gastown, hit the street races over in Richmond... damn.. I loved Vancouver. I have been going a couple days at a time, but recently stayed there for more than week... it was really nice to just enjoy and explore Vancouver.
Love this place!!! -
Review from R J.
4/1/2012
Its difficult to give Vancouver any kind of a star rating. Its a city with a million categories and growing. Lets start with the "gettin' around" part. Traffic in Vancouver, especially as you approach and enter the downtown area is just stupid. Left hand turn?? You have to be kidding!! It's intense, compact and all interspersed with traffic lights every 50 feet. If you visit this city and take refuge in a hotel in the downtown area, plan on using the local transit system or cab it. Leave the auto in a garage. The public transit includes the Skytrain as well as buses. Its one of the best around. It goes nearly everywhere and seems easy for one to self navigate.
The main roads into, around and through the city are mostly two lane type freeways (except they dont call them freeways) that takes a bit of skill to hold your car in place. An off ramp does not necessarily mean an adjacent on ramp to get you back on the highway if you have to do so. If you have a GPS (recommended) set it for "shortest distance" when trying to get you to your destination. If you have it set for fastest, it will get you on and off and on and off these highways until you get royally turned around and lost.
What's to eat? Name it. A million hole in the wall places to go throughout the city. One exception: Mexican Food. Forget it. It's not around. In fact, you really don't notice any people from Mexico around at all. Anywhere. Asian food? Hell yeah. What would you expect? Fully represented and then some.. And its the real deal, not the stuff out of a 5 gallon bucket. Ethnic choices abound along side the usual steak houses, fast foods and many many pubs. Canadians like their beer. Especially on hockey night.
Shopping is unlimited. If that's your target interest, get a room at a core downtown area hotel.. You will be smack dab in the middle of what Visa and MasterCard refer to as "Heaven". High end stuff too, and a lot of it. Vancouver is all about small business. Thousands of businesses each with 1500 square feet for you to walk through. Big box stores seem oddly out of place.
One bit of warning: Stay away from East Hastings Street. Several blocks of the most drug infested landscape in B.C. I'm not just talking about the occasional person walking down the street sucking on a doobie. This is heroin land baby... Big Time. The bottom feeders of the down and out's. It's actually worth a trip just to look at what top shelf drug addiaction will do to you. Bring those pre-teen kids along for some street level education and lock the doors. No walking tour. This is the true underbelly of 'couver..
The people and general population here are friendly and generally very polite. Not too many attitudes. They don't have time for that. They have a job to do..These people are damn busy, preoccupied and on their way to someplace to get something done. Out of the way please. Thankyou very much and have a grand day, eh? IF you're from a west coast U.S. city dont expect similarities to your home turf. As an example, Seattle and Vancouver have nothing in common except that they ARE on the west coast. Vancouver is cosmopolitan and seemingly proud of it, but not in a snobbish way. -
Review from Tai V.
I love Vancouver! Living here IS as good as it gets.
Every town has it's share of 'wobbly bits' and I've learned to embrace hers.
What really gets me is that really, I've never been to another place that has people that are so willing to be polite to others (I like to think I speak of Canada as a whole here).
I recently had a visitor from France and we were eating burgers on Granville after a hard shop, and the waitress and I were talking about the current sales and swooning over the brilliant cost of my new jeans. Anyways, my girlfriend asked; so how long have you known her for and I replied I don't we were just being friendly. She was pretty shocked we weren't more close. Personally I have no problem with people seeing me as surprisingly-polite.
The relaxed, welcoming mentality that you'll find in the people living here is wonderful.
Not to mention the Scenery!!!!! -
Review from mandie j.
9/23/2010
What is it about Vancouver?
Maybe it's the rain, maybe it's the trees, maybe it's that smell when you're so far deep into the woods that you swear you're just breathing in pure oxygen.
Maybe it's the fantasy of living in a high-rise apartment downtown and falling asleep the the most beautiful sunset every single evening. Or turning off iTunes and listening to the music of the rain.
Maybe it's being able to see the mountains without any smog in the way.
Maybe it's the people.
Maybe it's the plethoras upon plethoras of pigeons willing to steal a fry out of your hand if given the chance.
Maybe it's Whistler.
Maybe it's the beauty of the people.
Maybe it's the little hole in the wall pubs, maybe it's the feeling before Christmas when you'd kill for a hot chocolate.
Maybe it's the kindness of the people.
Maybe it's the beautiful campus at UBC, or maybe it's the environmental consciousness that is apparent on every corner.
Maybe it's the crepes.
Maybe it's the big city surrounded by nature's beauty.
Maybe it's the weather, but maybe it's the people. -
Review from Crystal H.
Vancouver, BC
7/15/2009 1 photo
*On my two hundredth review*
Dedicated to 20 things that make me go weak in the knees about this beautiful place that I love calling home! (I know there are a tonne more, but these are off the top of my head!)
20. Being able to keep chickens in backyards.
19. Simon Fraser University - the view on a summer day and for having a downtown campus to escape the autumn/winter of the Burnaby Campus. (I guess I can thank them for my education as well ;p)
18. Getting to one of first farmer's market of the season...in the rain but loving the smell of summertime on the horizon.
17. Riding my bike down the streets of Dunbar and Kits and fantasizing about owning a house there one day...
16. Watching as neighbourhoods and the city change and transform, restoring characteristic aspects from yesterday or modernizing for the future. (Yeah! Davie runs through to Pacific again!)
15. Obviously: the mountains, the ocean, the parks, the recreation all at our fingertips!
14. Getting excited for an upcoming event: the fireworks, Jazz festival, Theatre Under the Stars, Folk Festival, Parade of Lost Souls, Water fights, Lantern Festival, I could go on...(and some people think there's nothing to do here)
13. Granville Island on A Sunny Weekday morning: quiet and bustling at the same time!
12. Having a farm with Vancouver in the address - way to go UBC! Stay strong and stay open!
11.The wafting smell of weed that drifts through beaches and even through my open window...reminding me of younger days.
10.The Seawall in a misty rain, no umbrella, after a huge snowfall, or in the sun.
9. Walking or biking over the Burrard Street Bridge and stopping for birds eye peeks of Granville Island and English Bay.
8. Barbecues at Spanish Banks that last until full darkness sets in, complete with concealed booze.
7. The Roller Coaster at Playland's rickety ride up to the first drop.
6. The food: the plethora of hole-in-the-walls still waiting to be discovered and the good old faithfuls that bring comfort food to a whole new level. Like the Naam at 2 am on any given weekend...
5. Being able to get lost on a trail in Stanley Park and forgetting that you're surrounded by city.
4. The West End. My neighbourhood: incredible views, a truckload of awesome people, shops and services. Makes me smile every time I walk outside!
3. Freaking out out-of-town visitors on an East Van drive by tour.
2. Watching the Sun Set over the South Gulf islands. It never gets old.
1. After being gone for a long time, flying in to YVR from the East and naming the streets/neighbourhoods/cities on the approach, the North Shore Mountains in the backdrop and butterflies in my tummy - home...
