Haha, love it. That plane is in a photo on my living room wall here in Fredericton!
The town shaking thing is so true. The Antonov landed here once, it was legendary. My mom was working at the mall at the time in Bargain Giant, they actually had to stop serving customers for a few minutes on account of the noise/vibrations. Imagine a monster truck pulling up next to a dog house. That's what the Antonov looked like with our terminal...
I don't mind it. The houses seem to have expensive building materials and they're fairly densely packed compared to similar settings along the North American west coast.
Double the lot sizes and put these on flat cul-de-sacs and I'd hate them, though.
__________________ Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
I feel it may be the scale, and yes, a bit of the architecture people don't like. The style is similar to White Rock, but I just feel White Rock pulls it off much better.
The West Van photo area is a little different when not seen through a zoom lens - here's what it looks more like in reality (on Google), showing the area at the very top:
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