The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 175

Denscity · #**3481** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 7:31 PM**

Cargo ships in Calgary? Cold was being sarcastic.

kool maudit · #**3482** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 8:20 PM**

outside of the admittedly interesting main peninsula, one could be forgiven -- especially if not an outdoorsy type -- for finding vancouver's appeal elusive.

NetMapel · #**3483** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 8:49 PM**

What's with the sudden hostility against Vancouver ? Especially from Toronto and Montreal ?

francely57 · #**3484** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 9:11 PM**

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Olympic village aerial > > > (taken Jan.15/10)

from http://vancouver.ca/mediagallery_wa/medi...pic%20Village&photourl=OPVAerial3_sm.jpg

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WhipperSnapper · #**3485** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 10:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by NetMapel

What's with the sudden hostility against Vancouver ? Especially from Toronto and Montreal ?

Hostility? I think you're being overly sensitive. Burrard Inlet hardly summarizes Vancouver. IMO, It was a poor choice in response to Cold's comment.

agrant · #**3486** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 11:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by NetMapel

What's with the sudden hostility against Vancouver ? Especially from Toronto and Montreal ?

Sudden?

ConundrumNL · #**3487** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 12:13 AM**

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I love Vancouver's architecture. You'd almost mistake it for an Asian city.

isaidso · #**3488** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 12:22 AM**

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I love Vancouver's architecture. You'd almost mistake it for an Asian city.

I much prefer the squarely Canadian sections of Vancouver.

dleung · #**3489** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 12:32 AM**

^^Which parts of Vancouver do you consider squarely canadian? For me, it's the tim hortons in the eastern suburbs, hehe

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The photo doesn't make my stomach turn but find it a yawner all the same. Some green, water, and a sunset. Could be Anywhere Canada. Let's see Vancouver.

The pic is completely surrounded by Vancouver! city proper, downtown, north shore, ubc, etc...

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

outside of the admittedly interesting main peninsula, one could be forgiven -- especially if not an outdoorsy type -- for finding vancouver's appeal elusive.

LOL only on ssp/ssc will a nice city/sunset photo get these kinds of reactions

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Originally Posted by Denscity

Cargo ships in Calgary? Cold was being sarcastic.

So was RTA, lol

isaidso · #**3490** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 12:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

^^Which parts of Vancouver do you consider squarely canadian? For me, it's the tim hortons in the eastern suburbs, hehe

Almost everything except what what was built on the Expo 86 grounds; so I like most of Vancouver.

P Unit · #**3491** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 1:33 AM**

My goodness, Vancouver is photogenic.

giallo · #**3492** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 1:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

outside of the admittedly interesting main peninsula, one could be forgiven -- especially if not an outdoorsy type -- for finding vancouver's appeal elusive.

Main St., Commercial Drive, West and East Broadway, West 4th and a lot of areas in East Vancouver are distinctly Vancouver. They offer a unique city experience that can't really be found outside of the city. It has more of the suburban/urban west coast feel to it. A different style than the east to be sure.

Areas in Port Moody, Richmond and New West also have a lot to offer.

C'mon, Kool, you need to give Vancouver another go. Let me know if you come again and I take you out.

niwell · #**3493** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 2:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by giallo

Main St., Commercial Drive, West and East Broadway, West 4th and a lot of areas in East Vancouver are distinctly Vancouver. They offer a unique city experience that can't really be found outside of the city. It has more of the suburban/urban west coast feel to it. A different style than the east to be sure.

I've lately suspected as much. I've only been to Vancouver once and to be honest didn't care for it greatly since I only spent time on the downtown peninsula (condos!). Since then I've had friends who'd informed me that is really not the place to be.

It's like those who dislike Toronto because all they see is central downtown and the suburbs.

kool maudit · #**3494** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 4:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by giallo

C'mon, Kool, you need to give Vancouver another go. Let me know if you come again and I take you out.

fair enough, and you're not the first to say this... so i'll add that my impressions may be too narrowly-based and partial to count for much.

sammo · #**3495** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 2:02 PM**

i lost a good friend to vancouver. he was a real man here in toronto -an engineer with a suit, clean shoes & suitcase type.
on a whim, he drove there with his lady. they soon split up, sold his car... joined a band or something. vanished from all good society. sends the occasional cryptic text msg. he just gave up on life. suicidal.

harls · #**3496** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 3:38 PM**

A different angle of Ottawa.

credit - me.

Traynor · #**3497** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 4:42 PM**

UUUUgggghhhh!

I am so tired of Canadians disliking or downright hating other regions or cities in our own country. When are we going to grow up? To outsiders it looks and sounds so "Small potatoes". It makes us look like the rubes the rest of the world already thinks we are.

After all, who would take a country seriously, if they can't even take each other seriously? Would you invest in a company where the accounting department openly disrespects the abilities of the CEO? Or buy a car from a manufacturer who's president publicly spurns the competence of his assembly-line workers?

Travel the world and you find in most civilized countries, smaller cities are proud of their largest or capital city. Large city dwellers speak highly of their regional counterparts. Even the Americans are more tolerant of each other than we are. Americans ALL love New York. They are proud of it and think of it as America's capital.

I wish we could get out of our self-loathing phase and finally embrace the status of world class country, we so richly deserve.

flar · #**3498** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 4:46 PM**

Good shot Harls, I like how Place du Portage blends into Ottawa's skyline from this angle.

Daveography · #**3499** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 4:49 PM**

^^ I'm pretty sure everyone here was kidding/being sarcastic/getting in on the joke. I think you'd actually be hard-pressed to find someone that couldn't find those shots of Van to be beautiful.

Coldrsx · #**3500** Posted **Jan 18, 2010, 5:17 PM**

^exactly, er Bingo!

Vancouver is my second home who I love to hate but hate to hate.

It is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and is finally 'becoming' something amazing. While I prefer the grit and grab of montreal or toronto any day of the week, Vancouver is hard to not embrace.

What I do hate about Vancouver is how many people there miss out on so much of it.

Commercial north of broadway is one of the coolest streets in Canada.