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2010-10-27 20:10:51
Bec.Cowell
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Any tips on which places to live in Vancouver are best?

Hi All,

Im Bec and have been in Canada for approx 4 weeks.  Im currently living in Fernie and am here for the winter season, however am realising that I am already missing the city too much!  (Fernie is tiny country town).  I am thinking of moving to Vancuver around Feb/Mar time (any idea how bard/hard it is to drive in winter????) and am wondering what are the best area's to live and the best websites to use to find accomodation?

I have been looking on Craig's list, but its kinda hard to tell exactly where most of the places are?!?!?!?!

Any suggestions would be great!  Also im a lone aussie travel, wondering if there is any orgnaised nights out or anything as a chance to meet fellow travellors?

Any advise or tips would be appreciated! 

Thanks heaps!
Bec

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2010-10-29 14:52:21
Jared
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Re: Any tips on which places to live in Vancouver are best?

Hey Bec,

Sorry for the late reply!
A good place to hear about regular meetups is the Aussie Meetup group. Brett, the guy who runs the group, has just started up regular monthly meets again: http://aussie.meetup.com/164/

As for places to live, that really depends on what you're looking for. I'd suggest that anywhere downtown or close to it would be good, so west end, downtown core, yaletown, gastown, kitsilano, south granville, most parts of East Vancouver etc etc.

If you're looking to meet folks, probably staying in a hostel for the first few nights would be a good place to start. I have various friends who stayed in places like Same Sun on Granville St and ended up making a bunch of friends - usually other Aussies here for the same thing.

Driving in winter is like asking how long is a piece of string. If you're on Number 1 and the weather is good, then it's just like summer. If you're on a back road and it's just snowed a shedload and you're in a Peel p50, then you got problems smile

Seriously though, black ice can be an issue, so take it easy, drive where others have driven before, and try and drive an an awd car if you can.

J

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