Umm....... dude, you know the P word is like, ridiculously offensive right? I don't personally give a shit but I wouldn't be so casual with it if I were you, ESPECIALLY in Vancouver!!
Anyway, Vancouver is one of my favorite cities, I've spent a great deal of time there and I love it. If you can, get the ferry over to Vancouver Island - it's beautiful. Granville is defo where the party is at - go to Commodore Ballroom, it's one super dope venue indeed. Ginger 62 is another good club also on Granville. If you're looking for an inexpensive but still nice play to stay, perhaps try the Barclay Hotel on Robson. Defo go down to Robson Square, that place rules.
I didn't know that it was that offensive, sorry. I thought it's just like "Japs" or "Poles", and that "Sandn*****s" was the offensive version
I wouldn't say any of those in real life anyway.
I still don't really distinguish these racial slurs, and don't exactly know whom they might offend. When I said "paki" I meant that Vancouver is full of guys who want to look like Kid Cudi, but are immigrants, mostly from arab countries /south/west Asia. East Asians are different. It's very strange but there are these Asian (and when I say that I mean east, like Koreans, Chinese, Japanese etc.) couples everywhere, or small family groups. When I see an Asian girl it's almost guaranteed that her guy will show up soon, if he's not already with her. Except of an observation that there are shitloads of immigrants here, including workers who barely speak English this doesn't bother me at all.
Also, as a general rule, most city centers in North America are occupied by panhandlers and minorities. On the street anyway, cause they can't afford to live in the buildings. Yaletown is a nice area slightly out of the city center that doesn't have that panhandlers/immigrant feel.
Yeah I live on the boarder of Yaletown and the City Centre, near Robson Street. Actually everything "relevant" seems to be near the Robson Street, this is the main part of Vancouver and it's pretty small. I'm a bit surprised to be honest. There's nothing here that just communicates "bam, you're in a big city motherfucker!". It's possible to travel from Stanley Park to Yaletown on foot within 15-20 minutes, or travel around the "most relevant" parts of Vancouver within 2 hours. Not saying it's bad, it was just surprising, since I expected it to be bigger and all that. I know that there are a lot of things scattered here and there, kilometers of houses and such. I mean the "downtown" though. It's rather modest.
About that thing about all girls looking like whores...I have to disagree, because girls in Europe look like whores even if they're just getting coffee on a Tuesday night. They wear a dress/mini skirt every damn day like jeans are outlawed.
Now I have to say that my experiences after the second day are very different, like "Saturday night Vancouver" is totally different from the "Sunday day Vancouver". Either that or the Taylor Swift concert that I'm forced to hear has injected all the whores.
Actually I agree that on an average day many European girls would dress like whores, here it happens well less often from what I observed today, and I have to agree. It all changes if it's Saturday night and people here pretend that they're "partying". Literally 2/3 or more of girls that I saw yesterday had shorter skirts than whores in Eastern Europe, and at least 2/3 of them were with douches.
Actually my experiences after today are much better. I took a long trip on foot, about 25km. It was enough to do a circle around the downtown Vancouver and Stanley Park while looking around at some locations that I found intesting - amongst them the Stanley Park, Coal Harbour, West End - I liked these places the most probably because they feel the most Canadian. I like the "casual day" Vancouver much more than the weekend evening one, "partying" Vancouver. It's good for what it is to me, a clean, peaceful and nice city in an amazing location, great sceneries. At first glance I failed to notice how diverse the city is. Everything is just hidden beneath its Americanized shell.
It carries American traits too. There's more to that than big cars and douches. People are very open-minded. They don't seem to give a shit though. A lot of 'immigrants' are very nice guys. I'm not used to random "hello"s with strangers, but it's nice. I have a lot of observations and I realized how differently people think here, how different their decisions, mentality and thinking are. A lot of business phenomenas that I observed too.
But anyway, if you have any specific questions about Vancouver, let me know, and I'll ask my friends up there. I don't know much about it other than that Granville street.
Thanks, the only 2 that come to my mind would be:
1. Where do they serve best pizzas ?
2. Do you know any good (asshole-free, good vibe, warm decor and nice location but at the same time relatively inexpensive) places to just chill, grab something to eat/drink and relax? In case I met a special someone.
. I can go up to Vancouver and back with one tank of gas.
