Seriously thank you for making this, in a way its beautiful to see you talking these people, they are all just lost souls, they were once children, the people in your videos are so intelligent and i could listen to their stories for hours,
Moved from Vancouver from Toronto 20 years ago. Everyone in Toronto said you’ll love Vancouver, when I got to Vancouver everyone talked crap about Toronto. I’ll take Toronto people with Vancouver weather until the quake hits.
Interesting. I thought Toronto was the friendliest city in the world (thats what I keep hearing from people there). Im shocked that anyone thinks Vancouver is more friendly.
Vancouver is smaller than Toronto, and does seem a bit different. I don't feel threatened by people, but people can demonstrate blatant specific interests when they decide to. Many people are standoff-ish, but it seems to represent many people's personality/character traits. This can be due to the mindset of the particular individual when not having as much interest to get involved or to explore anything outside their comfort zone. I feel many people have difficulties being comfortable with certain personalities and might be less helpful when being so. People in Vancouver can easily be put off while automatically contributing some people's openness as a negative experience. So many people in New York would take advantage of these lively moments to only enhance the experiences while many people in Vancouver would give the confused look to only write someone off as a nuisance. 😢😮. Owell, I had so many amazing experiences in Toronto, and it seems the Brazilians were ultra friendly while finding myself ending up at Brazilian house parties often, and I would meet so many successful/interesting people. This would almost never happen in Vancouver.
all these people are brainwashed to believe that there exists some mystical power called, "addiction", that stabs heroin needles into people's arms, preventing them from creating a different life. "addicts" and "addiction" don't exist, just idiots making dumb decision over and over again.
I was never homeless but close and definitely been without food and remember how it felt when no one was helping me so I try to help when I can. Just a couple weeks ago I saw an older man that was shivering so I gave him a lined plaid jacket and wished i could do more. I have also offered to go home and bring back blankets or comforters but the person is gone when i come right back.
8:32 not always the case, that yt girl saying this is so ignorant I’m pretty sure she s not face discrimination and micro aggressions on a regular basis for saying stupidity like this 🙄
I find Vancouverites largely selfish and emotionally immature, and so arrogant they can't see that their behaviour is juvenile. Vancouver is like a beautiful person with a lousy personality, and it's not going to change anytime soon, It's been like this since I moved to Vancouver in 1991. Why do they behave like this? Because they're selfish and by becoming a friend to someone, they will have to give something back to that person. That's a hard sell to a selfish child. There are exceptions, of course, but this is what's entrenched in the local culture.
Mad love Hakeem. Let's be 💯 abpit Canada and racism. Before you point at white people I grew up in Richmond BC. Most multi cultured community in Canada. And foreign gangs ruled our city. I was neck deep in the life and reformed today. Public speak about my life. I don't dig this blame white folks for discriminating in Canada. All races can equally be racist. We ain't the States. I played football in the US for 5 yrs. College and semi pro. That was racist shit. Culture shock. In Richmond we all got into crime from all walks of life. Lol facts
i bet 1000 usd that this guy spent all day interviewing ppl so he could cherry pick his answers and funnily enough for every video saying vancouver is nice theres 20 saying its worse than a 3rd world country... makes you think
Re-watch the video. Vancouver IS particularly Anti-social and closed off. But also you can't complain if you don't go out of your way to meet people and make friends
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I don't think Vancouver or BC people are friendly compared to Alberta or Manitoba etc . They also have an irrational hatred for Toronto . I think it's because they know Toronto is much more of a world class city.
Thank you for video! People just mustn’t live like this in any place of the world. People are people, we all need more of humanity. And we definitely need for other system all over the world. Bless you!
I recently came here and I must say that probably it’s the only place who has so many morons playing with their mobiles instead of talking each other. Wtf ? Wake up people. You live in an amazing environment and you still using the fucking social media. Social make your life antisocial.
I am very familiar with both cities, and both have good and bad qualities. It all depends what kind of lifestyle you want; if you want a fun vibrant city with a big cultural/arts/music/museum/art galleries, etc scene, then hands down Toronto. If you like downtime, peaceful quiet solitude and like Mountains then Vancouver is the best. Vancouver has the Georgia Strait which gives you that salt air sea smell, and Toronto has the very large Lake Ontario. Pros and cons to both, and neither get particularly warm to swim in. Both Vancouver and Toronto have natural sand beaches; clearly the hotter weather in Toronto helps in summer with beaches like Kew Beach, Balmy Beach, Ashbridge Bay, Toronto Islands beaches (including the official nudist optional Hanlan's Point), Sunnyside Beach, Scarborough Bluffs beach, etc... and downtown urban "beaches" like Sugar Beach, or H2O beach. But Vancouver has great beaches too, like Kits, Wreck Beach, English Bay, Jericho Beach, etc.... Vancouver's milder climate allows more exotic plants, like Windmill Palms (can survive drops in temperature to -15c, or Southern Magnolia that you won't find in Toronto, although you will find the Tulip Magnolias in TO. Rhododendrons and Azaleas grow in both, but bigger and more luxuriantly in Vancouver. Both Toronto and Vancouver have Japanese Cherry trees with beautiful spring blossoms. In my experience Vancouver is more introverted and Toronto is more extroverted, so take your pick. Just my personal experience over many decades, but I find Vancouverites can be standoffish to outsiders (or even those that live there) and sometimes even be outright rude when they find out someone is from Toronto. This is a BIG turnoff for tourism, or moving there. No one likes to be judged by a total stranger. If you ask Torontonians about Vancouver, most will be positive, but in general not the other way round unfortunately. I've known Vancouver for a long time and it has always been that way; you'd think it would be less so with the immigration of the past generation but not really. Sports? Hands down Toronto, no need to explain. NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, CFL. If you like travelling, there are tons of cities to visit within a 1-2 hour flight from Toronto; Montreal, Quebec City, NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc.. not much longer and you can be in Miami, New Orleans, etc.. an amazing choice. For a 1-2 hour flight from Vancouver you can go to Victoria, Portland, Seattle, Edmonton, Calgary. Further than that you can get some California places like San Francisco, LA or San Diego. Both cities are equidistant from a Mexican resort town like Puerto Vallarta. If you like architecture, Toronto is much more varied than Vancouver, especially because it is an older city. Lots and lots of Victorian, Edwardian and even some Georgian architecture. For contemporary architecture, a lot more variation in styles and heights in Toronto. The mid height, square glass point tower is the preferred in Vancouver. Nothing wrong if that's what you like as it gives lots of windows to look outside. Lot's of green space in both cities, but there is a LOT more green space in Toronto than Vancouverites realize that there is; it is not just a "concrete jungle" as is so often repeated. A massive ravine system cuts right through the city, and there are more than 1500 parks in Toronto. Nature is close by; Algonquin Park, the Niagara Wine country, Niagara Falls, etc.. Vancouver has Whistler if you like skiing, Collingwood or Blue Mountain for the Toronto area are much much more modest ski resorts. In general, skiing or snowboarding is a lot more important to Vancouverites than Torontonians . Toronto's equivalent of the much loved Stanley Park in Vancouver would be the much loved Toronto Islands. Weather? In most winters Vancouver are milder, so if you don't mind what can sometimes feel like endless months of cloudy/showers/mist/fog or rain the winters are milder. Spring is nicest in Vancouver. Summer and Fall are nicer in Toronto. Nightlife? Tons in Toronto, and not much in Vancouver. Vancouver has a very good restaurant scene, but doesn't have the extent or breadth of choice that you have in Toronto, not only for multicultural foods, but for price range from low to exclusive Michelin-type dining. Vancouver has Granville Island Market and Toronto has St Lawrence Market. And Kensington Market, but it is more of a neighbourhood. Sidewalks generally empty out in downtown Vancouver at 6pm, but remain busy in Toronto all evening. Contrary to what some Vancouverites will say, downtown Toronto is also an extremely walkable city. And biking infrastructure in Toronto in general is underestimated by most people; I know because I use it every day. Of the 6.700.000 people in the GTA, half were born outside of Canada so clearly Toronto is more multiculturally varied, from all over the world. Fresh fish and shellfish are MUCH better in Vancouver; a joy to buy fresh not frozen shrimps. Toronto leans toward Atlantic salmon and oysters, and Vancouver prefers West Coast salmon and oysters. The choice of specialty butchered Ontario/Quebec sourced meats and cheeses are, from my experience better in Toronto. Both Vancouver and Niagara have great fruit/veg regions close by. Soft fruit and wine from the Niagara Region for Toronto, and Vancouver has the Okanagan Valley but it is three times longer to reach by car. The Lower Mainland may have more greenhouse farming, I don't know. Liquor and wine retail distribution in both cities is dominated by government agencies.. BC Liquor and LCBO in Toronto. Both cities have private wine/liquor stores. In Vancouver restaurants and bars can sell take out booze with takeout food orders; it is more relaxed in Toronto and you can take out beer/wine/cocktails or bottles of liquor from bars. Some may ask you to buy something like a small container of Pringles chips but others don't bother. A lot of bars in Toronto now have pretty extensive "Bottle Shops" of wine/beer/cider and hard alcohol. In Vancouver they have a mix of private and Government run cannabis stores; all of them are private in Toronto and the government stays to online cannabis sales. As for druggies and homeless people, there are problems with this all across Canada but Vancouver has probably the most noticeable problems; East Hastings is like nothing anywhere in Canada, while Chinatown and Gastown can be sketchy. Even walking on Granville you see groups of street-people lighting a fire on the sidewalk and no one pays attention. Sketchy near the Pacific Centre (Georgia, Granville). Parts of the East side in Toronto downtown can get sketchy; Moss Park, Regent Park, parts of Dundas/Queen East but it's nothing like East Hastings. Both cities have great neighbourhoods; in Vancouver I like Granville South, Kitsilano and English Bay, , but Toronto definitely has a lot of readily recognizable and very cool ethnic neighbourhoods like Little Italy on College and the older Little Italy on St Clair West, Little India, Greektown, Koreatown, Chinatown (which Vancouver also has), Ethiopian neighbourhood, Little Jamaica, Iranian neighbourhood, Portugal (and Brazil) Village, Roncesvalles Polish nabe, Kensington Market and other cool neighbourhoods like St Lawrence Market, The Annex, Leslietown, Riverdale, the Gay Village (there used to be a pretty good one in Vancouver waaay back in the day), Bloor West Village, Queen Street West, West Queen West/Ossington St, King Street West, Cabbagetown, Dundas West, College St , the Rosedale stretch of Yonge around Summerhill. Transit gets a bad rap in Toronto and I'm not sure why; there is subway, extensive streetcar system, buses, and GO Train/Bus system to serve the suburbs and satellite cities like Mississauga, Hamilton, Kitchener/Waterloo, etc... It's a much better system than people give it credit for, but ENDLESS complaining about it has become mandatory, or you are considered to be an oddball. Toronto was pretty much the only city in the 1950's to keep it's entire streetcar (tram) system. San Francisco kept a line, and all Canadian cities but Toronto got rid of the systems in favour of buses. Vancouver kept trolley buses, and they were pretty cool looking when I was young. Now they just look like regular buses, of course. Vancouver has developed a good light rail system, but doesn't have a traditional heavy rail train mostly underground subway system like Toronto or Montreal. Still, you can get from A to B in both cities and that is the main thing. When I was young you weren't allowed to hail a cab on the street in Vancouver; you had to call for one to an address. Thankfully that has changed. Cost of living is high in both cities, but in general higher in Vancouver. Even things like gas ( $1.88 in Vancouver today and $1.43 in Toronto), and restaurant meals.. pretty much everything seems pricier in Vancouver. Vancouver seems like a big city when you fly into it, but scratch the surface and it is still a small city inside. Downtown Vancouver is small and downtown Toronto is large. The Greater Toronto Area has a population just under that of the Metropolitan populations of Vancouver and Montreal put together. Again, some like this, and some don't; each to their own. It would be a boring country if all cities were the same! 🤗
Some people blame immigration as a reason of anti-social life in Vancouver. It s a BS. Go to California and see people from many many different backgrounds who are more friendly and kind and welcoming. I stayed 2 weeks in LA and became friend with all my sisters’ neighbours in LA . In Vancouver after 6 years, I don’t even know my neighbours. High rises with people who has no soul and reluctant to say even “hello” Extremely racist old people that you can realize the amount of their hate when you look at their eyes. Specially if you are a dark-skin.
The racism you're talking about is most likely just in your head, so you can blame others for bad things happening to you. You probably hate those poor people more than they hate you.
Interviewer please be careful!! Second hand fentanyl pose ing is real, I have seen it happen to cops. I almost died first time I inhaled it myself, but I am clean now. But yeah please be careful man, I’ve seen cops drop like a board because of accidentally inhaling some particles testing it. Careful!!!!
If youre not in church or in clubs? This is a younger perspective, there are more barriers post covid. 6:10 social battery is low: 7:40 yes the winter blues
