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I lived in Vic from 2000 to 2006 during my University years. Never did I encounter any crime. The only illegal activity I encountered were the guys selling me weed downtown. Miss those years. It was expensive though. I almost bought a van to live in, but thought I wouldn't get laid if I lived in a van. Anyways, no where to park.
Rain? We live in Shawnigan Lake where many people think has a lot of rain. Official statistics will surprise you as Shawnigan Lake has 1/2 as much rain as YVR, Vancouver, BC.
Great video, but it seems like for me (in my 50’s) these are all great reasons to move to Victoria!….i just visited for 3 days from the USA, and I now want to move there!
I am here because i miss Victoria. Especially at night when i think back to the time when i was still dating with my wife (2016 to 2022). Those were the best 5-6 years of my life, meeting my wife and exploring victoria together while we were attending UVic. We were very much afraid of the homeless at first, until my wife worked part-time at YiFang (taiwanese beverage shop) in downtown area. She would open the shop in the morning and there was always a homeless sleeping right at the door. She was very afraid at first and would call the police to ask him to move. But he would go back to the same spot every morning. Eventually my wife gathered the courage and asked him to please move. Surprisingly he was very nice and moved out of the way for her to access the door to the shop. He was very surprised that she didnt call the cops on him that morning too. My wife decided to offer him drinks and food from the shop as a gratitude. Next you know, he was buying candies and snacks for her from the 7-11 next door with money donated to him throughout the day. One time, an actual crazy woman entered the store and was causing trouble and the regular homeless outside came and resolved the situation. I spent some time talking to him as i was waiting to pick up my wife and found out he was an ex-military veteran. Not all the homeless are “bad” people! Nobody wants to end up in the street! Most of them ended up sleeping on the street because of unfortunate circumstances! Victoria is indeed a very romantic place. My wife and i have a newborn baby girl, we moved to Vancouver because I’m originally from here. We plan to move back to Victoria after retirement! Victoria is just the perfect slow paced city!
Looks like anywhere in the world has a homelessness pandemic, drugs, crime..I feel like the world is ending silently. I live in Los Angeles, California and it's way worse than Canada
I am 60 and have lived in many places and have travelled extensively. I ended up in Canada and have been living in Victoria for about the past 20 years. You would be very hard pressed to find a better place to live than the CRD (Capital Region District), I say CRD because Victoria proper is actually quite small and it is not necessarily the best place to live in the CRD (for example some people prefer Oak Bay or prefer Saanich). For Canadians, the only real drawback to Victoria is that it is stupid expensive; otherwise it is a fabulous place to live.
Victoria had it peak in tourism and popularity from the 80s to the mid 2000. Most businesses are gone and the malls have dauled out. Mayfair was the best mall in the city, full of men's and women's clothing stores, Sony store, HMV, even had a Shoppers drug Mart until it left in 2001. I was also stunned by the homeless and addict situation. Vic needs a Sky train system to run from city to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal ! It's not a safe city and a lot of hoodlums going around in the middle of the night looking to break in to people's business or house. I wouldn't recommend anyone to move to Vic RIP old Victoria.
Average rent to median income is now higher than Vancouver. Renters are demanding Vancouver level rent and Victoria doesn't produce the wages you'll find in Vancouver. The homeless problem is much worse than government will admit. I often find homeless tents when I explore in the woods of public parks. There are VERY FEW public washrooms and more stores are demanding you buy something in order to use a washroom. This town for some reason has produced and attracted a lot of very hard leftists and fake disingenuous people. There are Communist and Socialist posters routinely put up around town promoting events and someone in Oak Bay even ran as a Communist in their riding.
Good Ole Wickenshire. Victoria is a JOKE. Tried to get a job there but after 5 years had to move home, all our savings spent on food and rent. Hope it just slides off into the Strait. Hateful place, glad they're having problems with homelessness. Looks good on them.
1. Drugs Homelessness, Crime. These are problems for Victoria. Whether some places around BC are better or worse, is immaterial (cough Kelowna=drug and drug violence central). 2 Weather. It gets very chilly at nights here, and even many days in the off-season despite what this gal says. Ask her to spend a night on the street between say, Oct-April and she quickly discover what cold can really feels like here. That ocean doesnt do the city many favors. The summer season, sure, is very nice indeed. 3. Cost of Living. The worst, she probably understates it if anything and this problem overshadows everything else in this not very good clip. And it gets worse all the time. 4. Travel. I guess but this is really a subset of Cost of living. Yes going to the mainland has gotten stupid a while back, but, I dont really see 'travel' as being a specific enough reason to, or not to be here. 5. Nightlife. I am old and was never one of the cool kids in my prime, so, this one doesn't mean much to me. 6. Small community. Again, this comment seems like a subset of Nightlife in a way and I dont find the arguments she makes all that compelling or relevant. Friends. Again, another subset of Nightlife and Small Community. Canadians dont really like to make new friends overall, and this is not really a Victoria thing. A lot of Canadians can be fairly 'friendly' but also not very outgoing or eager to make new friends at the same time It seems like a paradox but it is not. My 2cents on that one.
I lived there in the 1980's in James Bay. I would go to Beacon Hill Park weekly. Over the years watching crime and homelessness move in there has been so sad. When I first moved there I would take a day and get a bus pass and travel all over to see different neighbourhoods.
It’s nice there ,very costly like the rest of BC… beautiful province….. it’s a place where a woman that we know tried killing her son by choking him at about 3 to 4 years old can go & social services won’t do anything about it…
If you ask me, Victoria is the belly of the beast, quite literally speaking. Victoria has long been cited as a bastion for witches and satanists. The Walking Dead? See the real deal--the drug-addled zombie street life is off the charts. It is also home to a large majority of woke and the phony-friendly. You know, the kind who smile large but would never dare invite you over for tea. Virtue signaling is off the charts. If there's a cause (Covid, Ukraine, Palestine...) they are all over it. Hanging flags and banners, banging pots and pans. Oh and they love their dogs over their fellow human beings. Don't try relaxing on a beach, Fido can do as he pleases. Did I mention that every little crap house is "worth" over $1 million? Ordinary folks without trust funds can not afford to live there and so all the restos and cafes and other service industry shops can barely keep open hours and pay staff. Do your research before you move to this place thinking it's the good life.
-40C and shoveling snow or mild. So it is so cold it hurts or is damaging to your lungs to breath and frost bite happens in minutes or mild. Now which one should I pick?
100% disagree with all your reasonings. I live in a north eastern town of 11,000 and in the last 2 years we have had 8 murders all gang related. Cost of living? Ha, its every where, Victoria at least has options if your willing to take the time to search. Dating? Try a town of 11,000, oh and talk about no night life to boot. Travel? Well my town is 6 hour drive to Edmonton, 4 hours to Prince George, and we have to drive 1.5 hours to a airport to fly out of this neighborhood. The homeless are rampant in any community in Canada, food banks are over run, doctors are impossible to find. Speaking of which, our emergency dept shuts down often because of no doctors, yes, in a city of 11,000. So, I'd gladly move to Victoria and trade you living experiences, you should be happy you have soo much yet can't see it......shame
Folks from tropical and dry heat places, if you move to Canada, bring your own heater attached to your face. That way, you wouldn't feel the need to adapt. Canada is a cold country with few days of warm toasty hellish sunny days. I am South Indian; love the coldness of it all here. If you want your warm toasty hellish sunny climate, why not move to the nearby desert or equatorial places, eh? Cost of groceries is a valid point. Drug issue is not just there but everywhere.
I was planning to move to Victoria.i'm working presently working here in japan for 14 yrs in different factories as machine operator and assembling of car parts.are there factories suited for me in Victoria?
I think these are not the true reasons for not moving to Victoria, because I have lived in Victoria for almost 15 years and it's the most charming city I have ever seen. These are your own selfish reasons to make people not to move to the city as you mentioned that the people in here are very welcoming, how contrast !!!.Anyway I consider this video as an encouragement as well as a great push and motive to move to 😂, thanks but no thanks
I get that it's a year old.... She must never go anywhere else. It seems she has no idea that the crime/drug/homeless problem is in every city in North America and the moderate climate, island vibe, less crowded everywhere are just some reasons why so many people want to move there. Vancouver is the most expensive city in Canada.
