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Originally Posted by hftech
Amen brother! Don't forget to support the contractors out here too! Haha jus kidding, I'm not going to steal anyone's luster. My time has done and gone since I've been on active duty even though I've only been out for 10 months! Iraq isn't really a bad place though, just sucks being away from loved ones and it takes alot for these guys especially because they are gone for at least 15 months and then catch a break at home for 12 months and then head back for another 15, it's crazy what you all are put up to for what little you get paid.
On another note, Jay how's Vancouver man? I've only been to Canada once and that was Niagara Falls, the Canadian side. haha I heard it's a really fun city though and I have a friend out in Langley, outside of Vancouver.
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Vancouver is a awesome city! Just like our license plates say... beutiful British Columbia, lol. Really vibrant and growing at a very fast pace. Its a newer city for North America alotta new construction....down-town is awesome and there is lots to do. Alotta cool bars, clubs, the usual downtown stuff and people here are really awesome, very polite. For the single guys.... the women are beutiful as well! But what really rocks about Van city is that it is beutiful, new and we have awesome amounts of things recreation-ally to do year round. Like grouse mountain is 25 mins from d.t for snowboarding, skiing ( lots of other mountains too for all that fun stuff), fishing, tons of camp sites/lakes, jet skiing etc.., tons of parks and just a whole lot of outdoor activities. The city and province is very multi-cultural (for example: one high school here had 29 diff. backgrounds/languages representative within the student population)
The weather is moderate... but we get a shit load of rains
So you better get used to that if your thinking of moving here ever. In terms of economy, its booming and very high... like ive never seen before. Yes it is expensive to live here, we are the most expensive city to live in Canada now. in terms of jobs and stuff... well for us... its pretty good... but in comparison to the states for the number of jobs available its nothing, not even a dot. However, the arts industry is really expanding here and alotta opportunity if your into that.... movie industry/filming, modeling, game design (EA headquarters and games are all designed here for example), etc.
But for a lot of you folks down south of us it isn't busy enough for you guys. What I mean when I say that... I have had alotta people come up here... some people say its awesome and they would live here... some people say its awesome but they could never live here because its to slow. I guess its not metropolitan enough, which I can understand where there coming from. I mean at end of the day we only have 3 million people in BC which is the size of California state alone... and California has 33 million the equivalent of the population in all of Canada!
We also have the 2010 Olympics coming up so the province is only getting more beutiful with all the new construction and stuff.
That my friend is Van-City in a nutshell!