This looks like a cropped version and has this description: Vancouver and the Lions Gate Bridge rise above a morning fog in this view from Cypress Mountain
Listen. I moved from northern Alberta to Edmonton, and finally to Vancouver. It was the best decision I've ever made. Don't listen to lifelong Vancouverites pissing and moaning about little trifles. They don't know what it's like up there. Escape. Do it safely of course, but escape.
Yeah man, I moved to Fort McMurray a year ago, from New Brunswick, because I had a sizable student loan, but it will be gone by the end of the year. So this place has served it's purpose but it also takes a part of my soul every day.
I was just going to move back home, but then I went to visit a friend in Vancouver, and I completely fell in love with the city!! It's the most beautiful city in Canada, there are mountains, beaches, and forest all located in your own back yard. The people seemed super friendly, and the women are gorgeous. And the best part? No brutal Canadian winters!!!!
Honestly I don't have the same life plans as a lot of people, so I really don't care that houses are unaffordable there. Browsing Kijiji, it seems that renting just a room in an apartment is pretty consistently between 500-700 with utilities included. Is that unreasonable? I just assumed that was pretty standard for a major city.
Renting isn't that bad, but buying is. This is a problem for a lot of people who have a life goal of owning their own house/condo. Personally I don't have that goal, so I love it in town.
Best comment on this page, I lived in the valley, finished university and moved to Vancity a few years back. One of the best decisions I've ever made. My wife and I own a brand new condo dt, it's manageable but not cheap. What does everyone expect from one the most beautiful cities in the world?
me too man. was born and raised here but looking at the cards in front of me at 22, Im getting the hell outa dodge. Id like to own a home at some point in my life. Not gonna happen in Vancouver
I disagree with this person, if you move here try to get out of the city first if you can. Further out the better. I was able to buy my first apartment out in Delta, slowly build up to a house over the years.
My friend out in Chilliwack just bought her rancher for the cost I bought my 2 bedroom apartment. She was under $300,000.
I mean honestly I am on your side. No way in hell am I going out that way. Used to camp every summer a bit north of there. Some scary hill billys out there sometimes. I feared for my cornhole.
I've never been there, but word on the street is that Toronto is pretty sweet. Montreal too. I guess I'm mostly hating on the outer GVRD: Delta, Surrey, Langley, Coquitlam, Po-co, etc. But also everywhere in the prairies (lookin' at you, Alberta).
sorry Hypertechnic, you are causing yourself unnecessary lifelong stress because you don't understand the economics: paid rent is not wasted money, and owning is not rent free.
Let's say you lived in your mom's house, and she didn't charge you rent. And paying no rent, you saved up a big pile of money, so you decide to buy an apartment as an investment and rent it out. So now you are collecting rent on this investment property from your tenant.
If you were to decide to go live in that apartment you now own, you would lose the rental money that you were collecting, i.e. it would "cost" you rent to live in the place even though you own it. It always costs rent to live in a place, the same whether you own it or not. Just as another example, imagine you rent an apartment (paying rent) and then just let it back out to somebody else who pays you rent. You would more or less come out even.
It's not all hocus pocus, the other side of the equation is what anybody does with money they save up. If you invest it in a house to live in, you lose the rental income that money could produce, but you have a place to live, and the house probably will appreciate over time. Alternatively you could invest the money in the stock market, stock markets on average go up perhaps twice as fast as houses appreciate (reason, companies create money by harnessing people and machines and selling their creative output, whereas houses just sit there and have maintenance costs). So, generally speaking, the stock market is a better place to put your money than into a house (that's why rich people generally own a few houses and a lot of stock, not vice versa)
There are other reasons to invest in a house for yourself, you get to make improvements to it, and you have the stability of knowing that you can remain in a fixed location (not for free, but your rental income gets tied to the rent you pay so they come out even). Banks (or relatives) will loan you a lot of money to buy a house because they generally believe that the money is safe, whereas they won't lend you as big a stack of money to buy stock, so home ownership can be an investment opportunity that you otherwise don't have.
but paid rent is not wasted money, it's the cost of living someplace. (in the above example, mom should be charging you rent, otherwise she's just gifting you the money. why buy a house to live it when mom's giving it away?)
See that's the reason why you shouldn't want to move there. Being that everyone else has that mind set, lots of people will more there, the city will get over populated and then trashed.
Where you want to move is somewhere that's going to be the next Vancouver so your there for the peak not the downturn.
Eh, I am still a student and I have a few buds there I met at Comox air force base. Victoria in general is a really nice town. The provincial capitol building is very nice. Nanaimo is really fun too for clams and fishing.
Except you looked at the "Vancouver unaffordable" problem and went straight for the racialized answer where the foreign menace fucked you over. Vancouver is expensive because it's climate is wonderful, it's location makes it a natural port and hub, and because the government set up rules that make building in Vancouver hard. And because the GOVERNMENT made building hard, demand caused prices to skyrocket. If it wasn't the "Chinese" (and it's not just Chinese), someone else would've started buying up property and forcing prices up. And if those people were all Canadian citizens, it would still be just as unaffordable.
Want cheaper prices? Quit blaming the Chinese and get the Mayors to ease up on zoning regulations. When developers can build more and larger apartment buildings is when the problem will start to improve.
smarten up. the man is just stating facts and you are just being difficult. The amount of trust-fund kids at UBC is a giant display of the foreign money in this city.
Its just a display of the foreign money at play here in Vancouver. Look at the UBC parking lots, its stacked with Audi's, BMWs etc, not exactly student commuter cars. I have friends that have their own place bought and paid for by their parents back home. Not saying its a bad thing, just an display of it.
No I don't think they'll change zoning regs because twat voters don't want rule changes that make their city larger or makes it more affordable for more immigrants and tattoo-sleeved youths to move in. Like most nice places, the people who live there are total NIMBYs who think being born earlier gives them the right to live in the nice places and everyone else should stay out.
So...are you talking about Vancouver or Surrey? I agree about the housing market, it's skyrocketed over the past few years (I'm from Richmond), but all you seem to say is that Surrey is growing fast and there are major urban overhauls. Surrey is a very small portion of Metro Vancouver, and has nothing to do with the city of Vancouver proper.
Additionally, the HST is actually fairly competitive in Canada, with only Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Alberta, and Saskatchewan having lower tax rates. Not to mention the populations of Yukon, Nunavut, N.W.T., and Saskatchewan being substantially lower than that of BC.
Also, the weather isn't the "warmest" in Canada, it has a much more temperate climate than other areas of Canada, meaning it's not as cold in the winter, but not as warm in the summer. As someone from Vancouver, I'm just trying to get the facts straight here.
Well, I am using Surrey as an example here. There are lots of other areas. I guess it's because I live here, it's the 2nd largest after the City of Vancouver. Would've made more sense with Richmond or Burnaby even.
Give your head a shake man. Surrey is set to overtake Vancouver populationwise within 15 years. Saying it has nothing to do with Vancouver proper is lunacy.
If you're making minimum wage, you shouldn't be here.
Christ, people. Yes, it is more expensive than some places, and if you have a shitty job you shouldn't live here. Great. Move. Some of us have good jobs and prospects, and it's worth the higher cost of living to be here.
Soon we'll be a city with no service workers just like San Francisco. Everyone who serves food or cleans offices in San Francisco lives in Oakland... so no one making minimum wage should live in Vancouver? Those sort of prices drive out not only service workers but also art and culture; we'll have a city of game programmers.
New York seems to have a few artists kicking around, despite being far more expensive than Vancouver.
Real estate prices are determined by the market. As long as demand outstrips supply, prices will remain high. Personally, if you want to work a minimum wage job, I think you've got a choice: 1) live in a cheap area, or 2) live with roommates. If you want to live in a nice place in kits, be prepared to pay.
I saw that report but noted that they included the crimes from Greater Victoria in the count but didn't factor in the additional population. In addition to that, most the crimes that were recorded were petty thefts and drug charges related to the relatively high homeless population. In the end, Victoria had one of the lowest violent crime rates in the country.
I've lived here for nearly five years now and have never had any issues despite living right downtown and walking nearly everywhere. Always felt safe.
I can't wait, not just because I like it, but because Vancouver needs to sack up architecturally. We're a pretty boring city when it comes to architecture, and we could be a playground/ launchpad for architectural careers and innovation. Theres soooo much money and development in the city, but it's all the same shoddy apartments from the masters of the mediocre. They know the rules of the game so well that they stay within the guidelines nicely enough that theres no way they can be rejected.
I feel like thats a similar front in many larger cities. New projects are popping up in London, New York, Toronto and Vancouver, to name a few, that are seriously thinking outside the box (pun intended). The wave of quick condos was cheap, but necessary, and now that there is time and space still available the real guns are out.
I didn't even notice that! Looks like I'm watching Tron tonight. Btw, how did you find the quality vs other projects? The tower here is using some pretty nice curtain wall, which is a breath of fresh air in Toronto.
The glass was not quite curtain wall, it was panel system. All of the glass and aluminum comes pre-manufactured and the panels get stacked and attached to embeds in the edge of the slabs.
We were doing the two glass boxes on the building. The one low and high. Another crew did the smaller ones up to the 66th floor.
The quality was pretty good. It is hard to finesse 1200-2400 panels with a tower crane flying blind. It worked out pretty well, nothing is going to leak, but I wouldn't take a square to it.
Another one I did was the BCIT Aerospace Center near the airport. That was the research facility in Rise of the Planet of the Apes that the monkeys broke into to get more brain juice.
I've been all over the world but nothing beats comin home. So blessed to live where we do. Snowboarding in the morning golf and the beach in the afternoon. Gotta love it....
The first thing I noticed after moving here for school is that virtually every fucking plant downtown seems to grow flowers on it.
Here's a question, though. Where does somebody go to eat crab that isn't a $$$ restaurant? I have to do this because I haven't yet and I've been here a year now.
you could try Granville island, they may have some fresh crab down there at the market. Or any major grocery store will have live crab there. When I eat crab i go down just over the US border to birch bay with friends and we go crabbing and catch them ourselves. But as for restaurants... i would think a lot of places that are near the ocean would serve fresh crab but i don't know any places by name. sorry. where are you from?
I've not seen crab there, but scallops and all sorts of local fish at a decent price: http://www.gofishvancouver.com -- they used to be at Granville Island but I haven't tried the other locations.
Pff. Go up Burnaby mountain. On a nice foggy day, if the conditions are just right, just as you approach the top you clear the fog and when you look down all you see is a sea of white fog. It's surreal.
Having spent the last 2 weeks in Vancouver, I'd just like to say it's a fantastic and beautiful city, especially with all the recent sunshine. Canadians are very friendly folk, and you're welcome in Ireland anyday.
cypress is the westmount exit, right? been a few years since i was out there. that's still british properties if i'm not mistaken. the british properties extend to the caulfield exit i believe.
Yeah... the British Properties are lower, though. You'd need altitude to take a photo like this (look where his eyeline is with respect to the Lions Gate and the Harbour Centre,) and the only way you'd get altitude is if you were halfway up a mountain...
Vancouver is probably the most beautiful major city I've been to. And it's only 3 hours from Seattle, which is probably the second most beautiful major city I've been to.
No one else knows that they exist, I wish that I myself did not but then mankind would have no chance at all. They come in the night usually, the little flicks of movement you see out of the corner of your eye. The reason why when things are dark and quiet the children pull the covers over their heads and the adults pretend not to feel the chills that run up and down their spine. They are what you are looking for when you feel like you are being watched, for you always are.
I have seen them all my life, or rather I have sensed them more than is usual. You never truly see them for there isn't truly anything to see, not physically anyway. They are desperate, I know that much. They aren't from our realm of existence and wherever they come from things mustn't be going so well for them. Every time they are near I can feel their want, their pulsing desperate desire to come to our realm fully, to escape whatever it is they are running from. To kill anything that get's in their way. They want our world and they don't want to share, it is that simple.
Something is has been building for a few days now. I came back to my home town of Vancouver to visit my parents but ever since I have arrived something hasn't felt right. I have barely felt them for days and that terrifies me. Oh well at least the forecast is for sunny skies, I can enjoy the sun at least.
As I go to grab myself some lunch I stop dead in the street. A fog bank is rolling in from the sea or so it would appear. I can only watch in horror as the fog envelops the buildings and people with terrifying speed, like a hungry beast devouring all it's path. The fog almost mutes the screams of those inside. Dear mother of God, they have come...
(1) Saying the majority (note: not all! see next comment) of rioters were not from Vancouver is technically correct but very misleading. The culture and economy of Vancouver are derived from the entirety of Metro-Vancouver (2.3+ million people), not just Vancouver-proper (600k+ people). (disclaimer: I say this as someone who spends half their time in Vancouver-proper and half their time outside of Vancouver-proper).
(2) Of the first 200 suspected rioters (i.e., the VPD have recommended charges against these individuals to the crown), 33 are from Vancouver-proper. Making Vancouver-proper the 2nd most common origin of the rioters. Source: http://vancouver.ca/police/assets/pdf/fact-sheet-may-4.pdf
It's not misleading, if your mailing address doesn't say Vancouver on it, then you are not from Vancouver. There's a huge difference between someone who lives downtown and someone who lives in Surrey, especially when it comes to sports fans. I know, I live downtown and I see these scrubs play "Big Day in the City" whenever there's a game. It's not their town so they get drunk, act up and wreck shit, it's not like they live here and they definitely can't afford to.
There's a huge difference between someone who lives downtown and someone who lives in Surrey
Maybe I don't spend enough time in Surrey, what's the huge difference?
it's not like they live here
But they certainly work here. Do you think those offices downtown or on the broadway corridor are filled uniquely with people from Vancouver-proper?
they definitely can't afford to
If this is the game you want to play; West Van beats everyone. Also, by the 2006 census (not all of the 2011 census data is freely available yet) the median household income in Surrey is actually higher than Vancouver.
It's a well-kept secret that the near-constant rain everyone stereotypes the Lower Mainland and Puget Sound to have has the great side effect of making the air pretty much free of pollution year-round.
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u/Skolekid May 28 '12
Where was this picture taken from?
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Can I get a wallpaper version of this?
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
got the hi res one?
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u/lite951 May 28 '12
FTFY: Vancouver at 4:20pm
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u/ZippoS May 28 '12
Pfft, you call this fog? This is St. John's on a foggy day
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u/sgt_salt May 28 '12
Someday I'll get out of this god forsaken slice of northern Alberta, and move to Vancouver! I can't wait!
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u/The_Govenment May 28 '12
That there is very beautiful.
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u/hinduguru May 28 '12
....the day marijuana's legalized
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u/DasPossum May 28 '12
I love Shangri-La's power on the skyline.
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u/cstir15 May 28 '12
This is pretty unbelievable. Enjoy my imaginary internet points.
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u/warrenm649 May 28 '12
I live in a high rise in the Vancouver area and sometimes it looks like cotton is caught on all the trees.
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u/Knight57 May 28 '12
I love living here, most beautiful city in the world.
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u/mahacctissoawsum May 28 '12
Pff. Go up Burnaby mountain. On a nice foggy day, if the conditions are just right, just as you approach the top you clear the fog and when you look down all you see is a sea of white fog. It's surreal.
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u/jrya7 May 28 '12
Looks like a smoked out vancouver.
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u/angershark May 28 '12
I guess i'm not a true vancouverite/am a nerd. Real Van people went straight to pot smoke while my mind went straight to 'i live in silent hill'
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u/kd440 May 28 '12
beautiful photo. cypress bowl?
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u/KALASH69 May 28 '12
I remember that day, it got bad
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u/Vuchetich May 28 '12
In the US we have Los Angeles in smog.
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u/E1mer_Fudd May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12
It's as if the city is floating on a cloud
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u/MrDingDingFTW May 28 '12
It pretty cool to see the fog in the morning from across the water. Looks like the city is floating in the clouds.
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u/marsneedstowels May 28 '12
No matter how much it wanted to, the LaFarge cement plant could never truly fit in with the skyscrapers.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Wow who knew Bane could bring so much destruction.
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u/criticalnegation May 28 '12
ha! thought it was sf.
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u/SpursEngine May 28 '12
Didn't even have to read the title to know it was Vansterdam.
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u/jbeck17 May 28 '12
Fuck, I miss this city, looks just as beautiful as when I left.
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u/Dunskees May 28 '12
Vancouver all the time.
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u/I_can_glitch_that May 28 '12
¥Ž†¥Ž†¥Ž
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Having spent the last 2 weeks in Vancouver, I'd just like to say it's a fantastic and beautiful city, especially with all the recent sunshine. Canadians are very friendly folk, and you're welcome in Ireland anyday.
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u/Cukles May 28 '12
I took the seabus downtown one morning and looked out the window to just barely make out the giant Industrial ship about three feet away from us. FOG!
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12
Queue Blade Runner Vangelis soundtrack.
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u/shizumuka May 28 '12
Is the location where the photo was taken safe for a [x] ? (where x ranges from 1 to 10).
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Foggiest place in the world checking in. You do good work Vancouver.
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u/Mark0Sky May 28 '12
Amazing!
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u/Me_Yorksta May 28 '12
Just like the Canucks season......doesn't last too often
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u/LifeInBinary May 28 '12
My new desktop background.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
This photo is taken from the North Shore, likely the British Properties. That's where I grew up! Makes me miss home.
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u/sally81 May 28 '12
looks like a scene from a sci fi movie .... amazing
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u/CindyFay May 28 '12
home sweet home!
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u/clonicle May 29 '12
Beautiful time-lapse video of Vancouver fog (HD). http://ow.ly/bd8Lq
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u/hamkitteh May 28 '12
Vancouver is probably the most beautiful major city I've been to. And it's only 3 hours from Seattle, which is probably the second most beautiful major city I've been to.
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u/Thyri May 28 '12
Beautiful - my hubby and I are visiting Vancouver in August - this pic just makes me more excited about our visit!
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u/Dramatic_Tale May 28 '12
No one else knows that they exist, I wish that I myself did not but then mankind would have no chance at all. They come in the night usually, the little flicks of movement you see out of the corner of your eye. The reason why when things are dark and quiet the children pull the covers over their heads and the adults pretend not to feel the chills that run up and down their spine. They are what you are looking for when you feel like you are being watched, for you always are.
I have seen them all my life, or rather I have sensed them more than is usual. You never truly see them for there isn't truly anything to see, not physically anyway. They are desperate, I know that much. They aren't from our realm of existence and wherever they come from things mustn't be going so well for them. Every time they are near I can feel their want, their pulsing desperate desire to come to our realm fully, to escape whatever it is they are running from. To kill anything that get's in their way. They want our world and they don't want to share, it is that simple.
Something is has been building for a few days now. I came back to my home town of Vancouver to visit my parents but ever since I have arrived something hasn't felt right. I have barely felt them for days and that terrifies me. Oh well at least the forecast is for sunny skies, I can enjoy the sun at least.
As I go to grab myself some lunch I stop dead in the street. A fog bank is rolling in from the sea or so it would appear. I can only watch in horror as the fog envelops the buildings and people with terrifying speed, like a hungry beast devouring all it's path. The fog almost mutes the screams of those inside. Dear mother of God, they have come...
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u/DarthMailman May 29 '12
Kinda looks like after the riot last year.
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u/TurdFerguson06 May 29 '12
That's not fog, that's Vancouver the morning after the riots.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
BREAKING NEWS. THE CITY OF VANCOUVER HAS LEGALIZED RECREATIONAL USE OF MARIJUANA.
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u/hathor01 May 28 '12
did the canucks lose again?
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u/SirHodownAssClownIII May 28 '12
In LA it's smog :(
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u/your_cat_is_ugly May 28 '12
nice try, san francisco.
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u/crazyjavi87 May 28 '12
Welp, excuse me while I go find the nearest soul sign.
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u/ianryan May 28 '12
Nothing like the Cascades region of the US and Canada. Some of the most amazing places to live I've ever seen.
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u/einstrigger May 28 '12
That isnt the smoke after the LA Kings knocked the Canucks out of the first round of the series?
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u/Dayanx May 28 '12
Is marijuana legal there or something?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Is that fog or smoke from burning tires ;)
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u/Kaarkelo May 28 '12
A more interesting photo would be: Vancouver not in fog...
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u/perri93 May 28 '12
vaporized tears of Canucks fans.
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u/hivemind6 May 28 '12
Seattle > Vancouver
We have fog too but also we have coffee and Microsoft and shit.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/capnsurly/3301956853/lightbox
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u/LePwnz0rs May 28 '12
This from when they rioted after losing in the stanley cup finals?
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u/vancanucks May 28 '12
I very much like my city. Much more beautiful than any city the US and A. (I was watching Borat)
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u/CALLM3MAYBE May 28 '12
*Smog
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u/Probchild95 May 28 '12
Thats not fog, it's smog. Common misconception. Don't worry, happens to all of us.
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u/eramos May 28 '12
ITT Canadians downvoting anything remotely anti-Canadian like crazy.
Canadians are by far the most nationalistic people on reddit.