Russ wrote:
[DIV style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]This is bad. Im from vancouver and dont have a clue what cambie village you are talking about SD. Was the sushi good at least? I find for sushi places now, we usually head to Kingsway Sushi on Boundary and Kingsway, Richmond Sushi, and I think its Denman Sushi near Robson and Denman. Although we tend to avoid the downtown place more than we used to for my truck is hard to find parking for, and Starfishie sold her car. Then told me. [/DIV]
I didn't have the sushi, as I thought that was a waste of money. I've had better food. [LINK rel=File-List href="file://localhost/Users/piercenettling/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_filelist.xml"] [STYLE] [!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face (font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;) /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal (mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; :12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;) @page Section1 (size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;) div.Section1 (page:Section1;[/style]
[p class="MsoNormal"][span lang="EN-GB"]My favourite place is the Denman sushi, too; but I don't really see the point to sushi places unless it's all you can eat (which this place wasn't). 'Cambie Village' is an 'up and coming' neighbourhood at the edge of Mt Pleasant (around City Hall) that corporate business and condo developers are pushing on people these days as 'hip' so they can charge you 1800 a month for a two and a half bedroom basement suite; and then 2200 for the first floor for 'mid 30s young professionals' (living the dream!).[/span][/p][p class="MsoNormal"][span lang="EN-GB"] It's all of Cambie Street from 2nd Ave to King Edward. You might also know the 'village' as the place where business owners sued and won against Translink for tearing up the street and running them out of business during the construction of the Canada Line.
The problem with the 'village' is that it's a corporate place that is riddled with those 'newly built in this decade concrete-glass condos'. These condos completely ruin neighbourhoods because their 'mixed use' philosophy kills off any restaurant life as the building itself increases the retail rent value. The higher the rent for a retail space, the less you'll see in ethnic restaurants and eclectic places of interest which make Vancouver what it is; and the more you'll see of banks, corporate chains and high end chain restaurants (RBC, BMO, CIBC; Starbucks, Shoppers, IGA; Miletone's, Earl's, Cactus Club) that are usually the only forms of retail that can usual afford the rent. Basically, 'Cambie Village' is Vancouver neoliberal development in a nutshell. [/span][/p][p class="MsoNormal"][span lang="EN-GB"]Good that you stay to places on the Eastside, the only place that still has character. By 2020 Vancouver will have priced itself out of existence through gentrification and killed whatever had made it great, that most young and hip places will probably be located in Burnaby or New West. I'm pretty convinced that the basement suite culture in Vancouver, which young people will have to subject themselves to -well into their mid-30s and early 40s - can be stomached for too much longer. Projections in 2050 suggest that the city's average age will be in the 50-60s. So the basement culture = no kids, but you're already seeing that within this province; as today, more people are being accepted into a BC university or college than graduating from high school.
[/span][/p][p class="MsoNormal"][span lang="EN-GB"]Anyway, back to regularly scheduled programming: rice, beer and the U.S. Open. [/span][/p][!--EndFragment--] [/div] [/body] [/html][/STYLE]
