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Downtown Vancouver itself is approaching 100,000 if hasnt hit it already.
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British Columbia is named after the Columbia River, a 4 minute walk from my house
Exactly halfway between Vancouver and Calgary
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55,000 as of the 2006 census which really surprised me. I had no idea Vernon was that big, I thought it was about half that size. Apparently it's a really nice little city too so it may be the one to watch, especially given the cost of housing in Kelowna.
Vernon is misleading. It has the feel of about 30k, but it's surrounding areas spread out over a fair bit of area.
The City itself (Vernon that is) has about 35000. The adjacent areas, both incorporated and non-incorporated areas have probably another 20000. Those areas are residential and rural for the most part which is probably what gives the misleading feeling.
It would be nice if they started to build up but my recollection from growing up there is that people aren't so much into that. 25 years later and it still looks pretty much the same as when I left except that there are houses where there use to be grassland (well, thats my take - I get back at least twice a year so the change is gradual for me).
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All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us? NOTHING!
I like the fact that it is gradual change. Vernon always had a slower pace than Kelowna, that's what a lot of people like about it. However, I find the changes in the past 15 quite substantial... I remember when 30th avenue was almost dead, now it is very lively, The whole power center on the north end of town is new, Most of the downtown heavy commercial businesses have moved and of course the endless sprawl up the hills too. They are infilling a lot in my parents area in the older part of east hill.
But of course the more things change the more they stay the same... there are aspects of Vernon that never change
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All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us? NOTHING!
The new Kal Tire office in Vernon (currently under construction):
From the CTA Design group website.
Again, not the Bow, but its Vernon, not Calgary
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All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us? NOTHING!
It is if you add 55 floors and bend it into a boomerang.
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All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us? NOTHING!
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