Hi there guys, i know that this is a little offtopic (not about RX7's and all) But you may remember that i posted about moving to vancouver! Well, it's happening and in 4 days!!!

I *THINK* i have found a place to stay, but it is located in East Vancouver??? Could you guys tell me if this is a nice suburb or not??? As i don't know much about vancouver, i don't want to move into a crappy suburb!

Any advise or help you guys could give me would be most appriciated!!!!!

Regards,
ben

 

which area exactly(street). Most of the east side is not that great, downtown east side is the worst. We should hook up when I get out there, I will be living in vancouver as well, again. I leave at the end of the month though

 

I've been researching places to live in Vancouver for months, since I'm moving there end of August. The impression I get is if you can afford to avoid east van, then by all means avoid it. It's not one of the nicer areas of town. Not saying it's awful either.

You can check out crime by district or by neighbourhood on the vancouver police department's site.

 

basicly, if its cheap, or you can afford it; you dont want it

 

No kidding.

Anything bigger than 600 sq feet that is close to town is expensive. If it is not expensive - you don't want to live there. After a week of house hunting, we realized that our only realistic choice was to live far and commute.

 

well i'm going over there, with no job and no place to stay, so i'm trying to find somewhere pretty fast lol.... i can afford more, but i don't have much of a resource online, it seems canada isn't as online friendly as australia (pretty much everything is done online here)

Its located East 26th Ave

Man, i'll be up for a hook up, need to make some friends over there This aussie is always up for a cruise/hit the ****

 

You're moving to Vancouver without a job first? Good luck.

Why would anyone leave Australia... Sheesh... After Vancouver, I'd like to go there for a year.

Anyway, why don't you try sharing an apartment? Go to http://vancouver.craigslist.org/ and look under housing. I've seen some great ads, but all of this stuff is for before I can make it there.

 

Well i have enough funds to keep me going for atleast 6-7months, so if i can't find a job within that time, i don't think vancouver is for me Being an experienced IT professional and also food and beverage supervisor, i'm hoping i wont have much trouble!!

Thanks for the link, i'll have a look at it now

I don't have any problems with Australia, but i think its something that needs to be done, experience other cultures and either relise what your missing out on out there, or relise what you've taken for granted

 

What part of IT are you in specifically? A friend of mine is in IT in Vancouver, and his company, McKessen, is looking for people to train physicians in the use of medical IT... It's a job that requires that you travel throughout North America for half of each month though.

 

jobs are pretty hard to find, you'll notice that. Just shop around though, IT is in pretty high demand

 

Well i've had vast experience within the networking sector, drafting/proposing/installing network solutions, but recently have moved towards customer relations, account management/business development side of things... I have more of a passion for the people side of things, hence the hospitality experience aswell.

 

I'm just gonna be relying on my aussie charm hope it gets me somewhere over there!!!

 

Well, use that "aussie charm" to put together a decent group of people that like to go out and do things, so that I'm not bored once I hit Vancouver!

Anyway, if that McKessen thing would be of any interest to you, let me know and I can pass your resume on to the right person.

 

For sure!!!! i can't wait to experience vancouvers night life!! and knowing me, it'll be experienced as often as possible hehehe

I've PM'd you.. and being half tired that i've just relised, you're gonna laugh at it. hahahaah coz i am

 

Depends what part of East Van. I used to live on a cul-de-sac (Marshall) just off of the Trout Lake park. Because the Skytrain blocked off the end of the street it was like our own private enclave for the neighbours and I. However, just a few blocks away there was another park full of hypodermic needles, nasty ******, and gangs killing each other. One of my neighbours 2 blocks down was stabbed to death as he sat in his car parked in front of his house. Supposedly his wife and kid saw the whole thing.

I'd say most of East Van is a bit scuzzy. It's not really a 'suburb' but a residential area just south of East Hastings, which is Vancouver's Skid Row. When I moved to a place near Vancouver General a few blocks off Broadway, my comfort level - and rent - went up considerably.

Basically in Vancouver the general rule is you get what you pay for.

 

Vancouver is a great town, but stay away from the east side of downtown if you can. It's a pretty bad area.

I am driving out there as soon as my car is out of the body shop.

Since we are all new to the city we should get together. I have a friend that lives there who could let us know what bars are good.

Vancouver has some amazing women!

 

Who cares about amazing women.... I hope it has amazing men!

 

i'm always up for meeting new people

Hopefully i'll have a phone or atleast internet access over there....

whens everyone arriving???

 

It will once we get there...

I'll be out there in early September. My car is being shipped, so as of yet I'm unsure when it will depart/arrive. Hopefully I am not too long without a car!

 

August 22nd for me.

 

Sweet, we can be like the new kids on the block, Nick Benny, Sophia & black93RX7 and show these Vancouverians how to rock the house down (but first, since you are canadian, i'll have to show you how to party aussie styles !! )

 

We can scrub up, head into the Big Smoke one fine arvo, hit up a bottlo, sit around, tossing back some booze into our laughing gears until we're pissed, and have some friendly chinwags, then hit the streets and take the **** out of some crackhead vancouverite wombats who are a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and then get up **** creek with the police...

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
sounds like a ripsnorter of a night
crazy thing is i didn't relise you were taking the **** outta us until i read police... coz it's coppas

 

 

East Van, think King's Cross like.

For IT jobs, check out http://www.bctechnology.com/frameset_emp.html
pretty much anything publiclly posted will be on that site.

-Henrik