https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-place-contact-festival-noise After all this time, many people just can't accept or allow Vancouver to become like a proper big city.
As a city and greater urban region grows and densifies and become more diverse, there should be more things to see and do. However, that's not always the case with Vancouver, BC. Even if the stunted city had a lot less rain, it still takes a watered down approach towards various things.
Since the late 1800s and early 1900s, Vancouver was a perpetual provincial backwater. Then during the post WW2 era, Vancouver was kept in a slow growth mode, especially when compared to Toronto, Montreal and Seattle. By the 1960s & 70s, those & several other cities really started to grow outward & upward, but not provincial backwater Vancouver.
By the 1980s and 90s, it was becoming quite apparent as to how firmly entrenched the, HOLD VANCOUVER BACK AGENDA, really was.
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/top-10-seattle-grunge-bands Something really took off in Seattle, which can be just as rainy as Vancouver. However, Seattle never took the water things down approach like Vancouver did. https://dailyhive.com/seattle/grunge-visit
Even by the 2020s, Vancouver still isn't allowed to become a big business and infrastructure center like Calgary and Seattle are. Buildings are kept short, most roads & bridges are kept narrow & the trains are kept short when compared to what Montreal & Toronto, Boston, NYC & Chicago, SF & LA have.
http://www.nofuncity.org , http://www.nofuncity.org/about.php
"What she did see, however, was a place that often lives up to its unofficial title of No Fun City."
“My parents own two bars in Alberta,” Kroll says. “It was really interesting for me to see how much harder it was [to start a bar] here than in Alberta.”
"And a segment on the Downtown Eastside makes a great case for why something in Vancouver needs to give: there’s something seriously wrong when the city will allow open-air crack deals at Hastings and Main but won’t grant a venue like the Rickshaw a permanent liquor licence." https://www.straight.com/article-321074/vancouver/running-venues-challenge-no-fun-city by Mike Usinger on May 5th, 2010
No Fun City (Vancouver Music Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMTkd8JtWdU 2015 https://www.youtube.com/@ifhtfilms/videos
Vancouver is Boring?! | Why it's Nicknamed "No Fun City" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5y3tIauES0
https://www.straight.com/news/what-can-a-wealth-of-recent-reports-tell-us-about-affordable-housing-situation-in-vancouver If developers were allowed to build taller and wider structures, in exchange for providing much more affordable housing for various income levels, things might actually start to improve.
Canada's rental crisis: Why we’re losing affordable housing - The Fifth Estate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSKOfmrHfQ4
What Nobody Told You About Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gnDGBXACFk Although Canada is the 2nd largest country in area, it doesn't even have 1% of the world's population. In fact, Canada has yet to even contain half of one percent of the human population.
Why people are leaving Canada? Pros and cons of immigration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFFEGToJSic
