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[psylah]

GTA: Real Life.

Fucking hell.

I'm sure the GTA is a whole different story.

 

[Oppo]

ah yes. The Whack. place is basically like that detritus of redneck that surrounds the city in GTA V but the Canadian Rockies edition.

 

[CreeperBlocks]

I blame Tabris

 

[Tabris]

I need to have Tabris come in and explain this.

I've never been to Chilliwack. I think I've been driven through it when going to the Okanagan (our version of Napa Valley) but never stopped there.

EDIT - So it's like Surrey Jr?

 

[Vhalyar]

I feel bad for the homeowner, but it was hilarious seeing the same people constantly barge into his garage to steal and/or pickup drug packages. Jesus christ.

 

[nel e nel]

I watched this last night before going to bed. I then proceeded to have a dream that someone was breaking into my apartment, and woke up screaming "INTRUDER!!!" at the top of my lungs.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Looks like a nice place

 

[negitoro7]

Went through chilliwack few summers ago for a hiking day. Wanna know how I know the place is depressing? One of the most gorgeous girls I've ever seen in person was working at that Burger King there. Probably would've been scooped up to be a model or actress anywhere else.

 

[Junior Mint]

Surrey get's way too much of a bad rap because of the gang violence but as a city it's actually very big and diverse, scenery wise.

I went to SFU's Surrey campus a few times and it was the only place where I regularly saw people drinking beers on the sky train at 9:00am.

 

[wild wild rice]

What the fuck indeed...this makes my apartment in the middle of like an 8 way intersection in Queens seem like a pastoral dreamland.

 

[RC]

Don't think I've ever gone to the whack on purpose. Driven through it though.

 

[andycapps]

What a strange place to live. Basically Trailer Park Boys in real life.

 

[Mattlikewhoa]

I've driven through it though, but never stopped. My BC friends suggested that it was for the better. Looks like they were right on the money.

 

[BocoDragon]

This.

Though New West seems to have been slowly getting a bit nicer in the 8 years that I've stayed away from it...

You should have seen how much worse it was in the 80s. I have long considered New West to be Surrey's North Shore.

New West is totally clean now I'd say. I moved there in 2009 and it's only gotten better. I'm struggling to think of trouble spots.

I heard the skytrain did a number on it in the 80s, bringing in crime etc. But it seems they've cleaned it up.

 

[Lexxism]

Wow. It seems like everyone keeps on coming to his house to steal something. That's a fuck up place.

 

[Abstruse Moose]

Wow. It seems like everyone keeps on coming to his house to steal something. That's a fuck up place.

I'd have the biggest meanest Rottweiler camped out there.

 

[BadHand]

I have lived in Chilliwack for 5 years and we love it here. We are in the Sardis area and it has great trails and lakes, good schools and neighbors.

I'm vaguely familiar with this part of town which I believe is close to a recovery house or third stage transitional housing or something like that... I drove through that part of town once when my wife had a soccer game and somebody kicked my car for no reason.

I'm from Surrey and the only time I go near Chilliwack is when I want to go to all the places that are not Chilliwack.

Try spending some time next summer in Cultus lake and doing some of the trails close to Vedder river. The residential areas in that area are very nice, I think you'll have a good time.

This is coming from someone who grew up in a decent part of England.

 

[erlim]

the further away you get from Vancouver, the worse BC becomes

Well except for the best ski resort in North America.

 

[criesofthepast]

What a strange place to live. Basically Trailer Park Boys in real life.

I was waiting for Mr Lahey to come out dressed as a Indianapolis Jones and Randy with his cheeseburger gut dressed as a bumble cocksucker.

 

[BadHand]

Really though, this video is like putting the CCTV footage of Main and Hastings on YouTube and believing that the feed represents Vancouver as a whole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJkqTZ5H_s

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Clearly fake.

 

[KyanMehwulfe]

surrey just over here sippin on lipton tea

trevor philips be up in prince george tho

 

[Tabris]

Well except for the best ski resort in North America.

Essentially Vancouver, Tofino, Gulf Islands, Victoria, Whistler, and Okanagan. Everywhere else is gross in BC.

EDIT - Well I mean the nature is beautiful. I'm just talking about the cities / towns.

 

[andycapps]

I was waiting for Mr Lahey to come out dressed as a Indianapolis Jones and Randy with his cheeseburger gut dressed as a bumble cocksucker.

Bo-Bandy!

 

[yanipheonu]

Edit: lol just going to claim this post as lol derp

 

[Silver Arrows]

I was waiting for Mr Lahey to come out dressed as a Indianapolis Jones and Randy with his cheeseburger gut dressed as a bumble cocksucker.

I approve of this post.

 

[Firestorm]

Try spending some time next summer in Cultus lake and doing some of the trails close to Vedder river. The residential areas in that area are very nice, I think you'll have a good time.

This is coming from someone who grew up in a decent part of England.

Cultus Lake is super nice! Used to go there with my family.

 

[Mupod]

I was born in Williams Lake, raised in Kitimat and I can confirm this. Canada is basically reverse USA. The further North you get, the more rednecky.

I grew up in a northern ontario trailer park, Trailer Park Boys is actually a documentary.

 

[Baron Aloha]

Is this like the Canadian version of Florida? These people are insane. The whole damn town needs to be locked up in an asylum apparently.

 

[Tabris]

Cultus Lake is super nice! Used to go there with my family.

Why go to Cultus Lake when you can go to the Okanagan?

 

[andycapps]

I grew up in a northern ontario trailer park, Trailer Park Boys is actually a documentary.

Makes me love the show even more.

 

[Apathy]

And people talk shit about Ontario. We're the most sane.

 

[Subpar Spatula]

I went to SFU's Surrey campus a few times and it was the only place where I regularly saw people drinking beers on the sky train at 9:00am.

You see this in Vancouver all the time....

Confirmation bias much?

 

[Canis lupus]

My wife's Oma lives there.

It's a small town in Western Canada. Which means people hunt a lot, watch/play a lot of hockey, and vote NDP (if you were laid off at the mill) or Conservative (if you helped decide who was laid off at the mill).

Oma?

 

[MrCunningham]

Oma?

Oma is German term for Grandmother.

 

[BadHand]

Why go to Cultus Lake when you can go to the Okanagan?

Why go to the Okanagan when you can go to the Seychelles?

 

[lethial]

Chilliwack has great camping and Cultus lake is fun in the summer. Otherwise it's awful.

 

[ohlawd]

Why go to the Okanagan when you can go to the Seychelles?

Why go to the Sey-wha when you can stay home like Tabris

 

[Silver Arrows]

Why go to the Sey-wha when you can stay home like Tabris

Why stay home when you can bitch about home from GAF like Tabris

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

Rural and small town western Canada is like this. Anything west of Sudbury, really. Full of meth heads, souped up 4x4s, crime,and white people complaining about how immigration is ruining their country.

It's basically like the parts of America they show in COPS.

 

[Tabris]

Why go to the Okanagan when you can go to the Seychelles?

I agree if that's a choice for you.

Why go to the Sey-wha when you can stay home like Tabris

I'm not staying home though! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1162697

Why stay home when you can bitch about home from GAF like Tabris

I never bitch about home. Downtown Vancouver is one of the best places on the planet

 

[Tiktaalik]

I think if you put any camera on an intersection for long enough in any town you'd be able to compile a collection like this. I see terrible, insane drivers all the time.

 

[jfoul]

 

[jackal27]

Holy crap! Grand Theft Auto: British Columbia please. I can't believe that all went on in the course of a year.

 

[BadHand]

I never bitch about home. Downtown Vancouver is one of the best places on the planet

Except for E Hastings, right? Or have downtown residents gone full-blown Sodosopa?

 

[Tabris]

Except for E Hastings, right? Or have downtown residents gone full-blown Sodosopa?

I live in the Vancouver equivalent of Sodosopa, the Woodwards complex.

 

[MMarston]

Pretty sure gentrification is about to go full-blast on E Hastings - if it hasn't already that is.

 

[Tabris]

Pretty sure gentrification is about to go full-blast on E Hastings - if it hasn't already that is.

It's been hitting it for the last 5 years and accelerating each year.

The bigger gentrification that's occurring is in Chinatown though. Give that 5 to 10 more years and it will be a rich neighbourhood, but that influences E.Hastings even more then the Gastown gentrification that has been occurring for last 5 years.

 

[MyAbsolution]

Chilliwack just smells like shit too. Don't need a welcome sign to know you're passing through.

 

[RC]

It's been hitting it for the last 5 years and accelerating each year.

The bigger gentrification that's occurring is in Chinatown though. Give that 5 to 10 more years and it will be a rich neighbourhood, but that influences E.Hastings even more then the Gastown gentrification that has been occurring for last 5 years.

Sad. Whatever charecter Chinatown had will be whittled away and turned into overpriced Tapa bars. At least Tabris will have more places to eat.