Ahh Vancouver, BC.
Home of the Canucks and some of the richest people ever to be born.
As a person that’s lived in three different cities throughout my life, Vancouver is a city like no other. Beautiful in nature, waterfront as you can get, mountainous as you can imagine. But it comes at a price, a million dollar price.
Vancouver is home to one of the most expensive housing markets in the world. Rising up in the ranks of Paris, Tokyo and Manhattan, Vancouver can hold its own for the luxurious. However, it comes at a costly price, both monetary and culturally.
The affluent class has dominated the way people interact in Vancouver. As housing prices keep rising, jobs become scarce and incomes are slow to grow, but and the cost of living keeps going up. For many (lower-upper middle class), it’s a struggle day-to-day.
However, I’m alluding to a deeper concern. The way people interact day-to-day in Vancouver. The affluent class has placed their cultural stamp on the rest of Vancouver, allowing for that culture to seep into the middle-class. People in Vancouver society treat each other different. They have become more callous, more conservative, and don’t interact with strangers. People, in a way, have become distant. It’s no wonder Vancouver’s nickname is “No Fun City”. Everything closes around 9pm on most nights, the alcohol laws are asinine, all on top of the fact that it’s hard to make friends and have romances in this city due to such callous interactions.
The best way to describe this feeling is the sense of entitlement. For example, today my friend and I were sitting in a busy coffee shop and numerous people walked by our table. They scoffed, glared and tsk-ed. Anything to insinuate for us to give up our seats faster. Then my friend said the most profound statement of all,”People in Vancouver are entitled, they want ownership to things they have no real ownership to, like this table in a coffee shop. Most people in Vancouver don’t own anything so they find other ways of showing ownership and entitlement.” Bingo.
This is why we treat the way we do. Tourists will fail to understand this because the locals will talk to tourists to help them out temporarily. Locals find it hard to talk to other locals, they almost want something to their benefit if they are talking to each other. And that definitely is the wrong way to go.
Perhaps I’m being rather harsh, but if anybody else has an opinion. The stage is yours.
Profoundly Stupid 