Ode to Vancouver
You know you're from Van when...
1. You make over $250,000 and still can't afford a house.
2. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.
3. You're shocked when it snows in the winter.
4. If there's a day of snowfall, you consider not going to school or work.
5. You're not suprised to see geese throughout the whole year.
6. You know what these acronyms mean: PNE, VPL, GVRD, YVR, VAG.
7. Know how to pronounce Coquihalla.
8. A really great parking space can move you to tears.
9. You're sure you're the only one on the road with a REAL driver's license.
10. The more expensive the car, the worse the driver.
11. Your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, the woman who delivers your mail is into BDSM, and your next door neighbour grows weed.
12. You realize there are far more Rainbow flags in the city than Canadian flags.
13. You go an opera and half the audience is dressed to the nine's and the other half are in jeans and t-shirts.
14. Your coworker has 8 body piercing and none are visible.
15. The gym is packed at 3 PM... on a work day.
16. You can tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Thai food.
17. You've had a California roll for lunch.
18. When you take the bus, you can distinguish 4 different languages being spoken in the conversations around you.
19. You watch the weather from a Seattle TV station because it's more accurate.
20. You don't even listen when the forecast announces "chance of showers."
21. You pass an elementary school and the children are all busy with their cell phones or pagers while waiting for their personal rides home.
22. You cant remember... is pot still illegal?
23. You know how to set up your own Crystal Meth lab because you saw it on the news.
24. You feel guilty throwing aluminum cans or paper in the trash.
25. You secretly have a fear of pig farms.
26. You go a friend's house party and Bif Naked shows up because they went to highschool together.
27. You can taste the difference between Starbucks, Second Cup, and Tim Horton's coffees.
28. The guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing the baseball cap and sun glasses who looks like George Clooney IS George Clooney.
29. Know more than 10 ways to order coffee.
30. You can name 10 Starbucks locations in less than a minute.
Vancouver 3rd in world in quality of life survey
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The annual quality of life survey released by Mercer Human Resource Consulting placed Vancouver third out of 215 cities, the same as last year.
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The only two places that beat the West Coast city were Zurich and Geneva in Switzerland.
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- CBC News
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