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Bodhisattva
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Who lives in Vancouver? What's good about it and would it be a good place to go to college?
Aug 19 2010 10:30PM
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Shadows
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cant answer any of your questions.
fun fact though: most of the buildings were designed by the same dood so they are pretty similar and give the city a very congruent feeling of togetherness.
Aug 19 2010 10:42PM
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no_steeze
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it's a really cool city if you don't mind a lot of asians

it's close to whistler, it's very pretty, and it's a nice city as far as cities go
Aug 19 2010 10:46PM
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Caucasian_Asian
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You get to buy a really cool umbrella.
Aug 19 2010 10:48PM
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A.Eberhard
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Sickest city ever, the city itself really never see's snow, but go to the mountains and there is tons. UBC would be a pretty dope school to go to.
Aug 19 2010 10:52PM
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panojibber
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It was ranked one of the top 5 most liveable cities in the world a few times somewhere, and its a dope place to live.

I'm going there in the fall for university and have heard nothing but good things about UBC. Super stoked to go, should be a fun time. There's a thread in the vancouver regionals that has a bunch of info and people who are going there, if you're thinking of going hit the vancouver regionals up.
Aug 19 2010 11:30PM
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rudager
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I'm not much of a city guy myself. but I love vancouver.

Moving there in April, need to do a year of school first, then Vancouver for acouple months, then back to vancouver when i'm done my second year.

long time coming, anyone want to come live with me?
haha
Aug 20 2010 1:47PM
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PacificRimJob
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If you get into UBC?

Great place to go to school.
Aug 20 2010 1:59PM
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PacificRimJob
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Alaska airlines goes there. i'm like only a short 1 stop flight from it.
Aug 20 2010 2:01PM
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oreopancake.
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this.
Aug 20 2010 2:04PM
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JaslynFilms
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UBC is a fantastic school.  The profs are mostly pretty great, there's a ton of variety in terms of fields of study, the campus easily one of the nicest in Canada, and the campus life is sick.  Join the Ski and Board Club, we know how to party.  Proximity to Whistler and other mountains around Van is definitely a plus too, although usually Cypress and Grouse are pretty slushy.  Aside from campus and skiing, Van is just a great city.  People are sweet, and there's so much to do.
Aug 20 2010 2:10PM
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Funnel
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Vancouver looks like a sweet place to be. I think we're going to take a trip up to the PNW next summer and Seattle and Vancouver are both on my list of places to go.
Aug 20 2010 3:10PM
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nomensteven
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As far as cities go it is a pretty nice place. The main criticism of course being the coastal climate but I find that criticism to be exaggerated. It isn't the greatest city in Canada (third in my opinion behind Ottawa and Montreal) but it is easily the best major city in Canada that is close to decent skiing, climbing, biking, etc. (Calgary being #2 of course).
Aug 20 2010 3:12PM
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Schlop
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Get up here now. Whatever you do won't be disappointed, I'm getting out of here but I'll post in depth later
Aug 20 2010 3:13PM
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carboard_SOUP
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vancouver is a pretty sick place but property can be expensive. and we do actually get lots of snow sometimes in the actual city and the mountains
Aug 20 2010 3:32PM
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smile=]
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been going there since 05 every christmas (L)
imma move there
Aug 20 2010 3:38PM
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Kevski
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I've lived in van my whole life, and the last couple years I've been in Victoria on vancouver island for school. Both super nice but vancouver is amazing. We're spoiled on having so many close options for outdoors stuff too.

If you want more details though you probably want to check out the regional forum for vancouver/whistler if you haven't yet. There are a couple threads in there discussing the same questions you brought up.
Aug 20 2010 3:59PM
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hue.
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I've lived in Van all my life, and i love it, during the summer, there's biking (whistler, shore, dj's, seawall for the view), cliff jumping, hikes, the works. and as for colleges theres a pretty large range of selection in the lower mainland, aslong as you don't mind busing
Aug 20 2010 4:13PM
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Satan666
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I think it was voted like the most desired place to live in the world or something.  And it's really sick because the mountains are really close to the water.  Not many places that are like that.
Aug 20 2010 4:19PM
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paige.
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Vancouver is incredible if you can afford it. The city itself is gorgeous and pretty well planned out- they had a limit on the height buildings could be downtown so that they wouldn't block the mountains. There are lots of nice parks within the city (both Pacific Spirit and Stanley Park having a large trail network). I'm in Calgary for school now and I must say I don't like it nearly as much. Because the weather in Vancouver stays mild throughout the winter businesses are street-based rather than mall-based. As a result you get cool places to hang out like Main St, Commercial, South Granville, 4th, Granville Island, Gastown etc., and each is able to develop their own character.

That said, although I only live 10 minutes from UBC I have never really wanted to go there. It seems really large and impersonal and focused on money before anything else. Yes some of the buildings are really nice, the labs are the most recent technology and the Japanese gardens are gorgeous but it also seems like something is missing.
Aug 20 2010 5:33PM
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jason...
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I live in Vancouver! Good things about Vancouver: Good weed, downtown is sick, lots of good skating, 3 local mountains all with night skiing, I'm here, good mountain biking blah blah the list goes on. Either way Vancouver is dope place.
Aug 20 2010 5:38PM
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Turner.
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I'm not the biggest fan of Vancouver itself, but there's always something to do: skate bike ski whatever and if I was of age I could probably tell you about good places to party... the skiing here is sick. tons of options for terrain etc. and good vibes.

one of many UBC threads from van/whis regionals, which is the place to be for other info about NS's west coast outpost: https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/538698/
Aug 20 2010 6:24PM
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Frazelli
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im thinkin of goin there, im hoping to get in i heard its pretty tough tho
Aug 20 2010 6:32PM
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baz1
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Mission FTW
Aug 20 2010 11:37PM
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baz1
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shitty mission in vancouver
Aug 20 2010 11:43PM
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jibbinc.
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check regonals too
Aug 21 2010 12:32AM
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oreopancake.
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whenever i go to mission, i feel like i'm from the future.
Aug 21 2010 3:11AM
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baz1
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hahaha
Aug 21 2010 5:15AM
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Kangbang
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YES. i live in kelowna.

and yes FTW if you dont mind 36 degree summers.
Aug 21 2010 5:23AM
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baz1
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where Im from, were lucky if it gets that low at night.
Aug 21 2010 6:19AM
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