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Originally Posted by whatnext
Welcome to the Third World, right here in Vancouver. The nicer areas get sold off to any of the global elite who has a bag of cash and the locals get stuck cramming into leftover scraps like this.
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Whether an area is nice or not is rather relative. To me, I don't consider West side as "nice". It's just the countryside brought into a city, making it unsustainable and "third world".
To be in the "first world" means either forsaking or trimming the fats that drag us down. It means to be near major transit routes, work, play and the necessities of life. It means to be green, to reduce your ecological footprint. It means to forsake your car and join a car-co-op. It means to be healthy because you walk/bike more, as what humans should be doing instead of constantly having your butts parked in cars. It means to be nearer humanity and have others who can share their experience with you. It means to be living in a better engineered concrete structure that can withstand the test of time, including natural disasters.
So, if that kind of living means being in a smaller compact space, then I would rather go for it.
And to me, The Independent is the first sign of the "first world" brought into the Mt. Pleasant neighbourhood.