I'm not sure what Nanaimo looks like today as I haven't been there for about 8 years, but at that time the "downtown" was about 7 miles further "up Island" than it was in the 70s. Nanaimo sort of just moved into Lantzville.
Where is best to move to?
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I'm not sure what Nanaimo looks like today as I haven't been there for about 8 years, but at that time the "downtown" was about 7 miles further "up Island" than it was in the 70s. Nanaimo sort of just moved into Lantzville.
Population here has grown considerably JLM. You better look at Juan's post - he's much closer to the real thing. I was driving by the sign that says our population just the other day and thinking they should get around to changing it.
The downtown core is better than it used to be. It's been cleaned up a lot. The downtown you are talking about is North Nanaimo and yes - it is more like what a person would think of as downtown. Most new developements happen in the north end and yes - it borders on Lantzville. Lantzville is it's own community but without seeing the the sign that says you have changed towns, you would not know you have left Nanaimo and entered Lantzville. There is upper and lower Lantzville. Fantastic ocean views from both. I like North Nanaimo and rarely go south. There is very little reason to go there for my likes and needs. Housing in Pt. Alberni is cheap but you couldn't pay me to live there. Not to my liking and never has been. Parksville is only about a 20 min. drive but it's expensive to live there. Much more so than most places here. It's a real retirement community. Taxslave lives more in that direction than Juan and I do.
Those are great pics. Juan but only a couple of them give a glimpse of Nanaimo North. (Including The Grand Hotel). Too bad there isn't more of it to show.
Try Vancouver. My niece and her hubby bought a 2 bedroom (900 sq. ft) apt.(condo) there. It's nothing special but it's okay. I stayed 2 nights but that was long enough. They paid $490,000.00.
No it isn't. It's much more expensive. It has a lot more retired people. As JLM stated - if you are not born and raised there - they never let you in. People from Victoria move here and they treat us with distain and tell us how much they hate it here. They move here because they can afford to live here so they should allow themselves to fit in rather than knocking us so that we don't care if they like it or not. Nanaimo is a friendly place to live.:smile:
As a registered nurse the last place you want to be is in Vancouver The Chinese and Aborigionals won't let you in and the crime rate is a lot higher in Vancouver and you have a better chance of of getting killed in Vancouver and and and the list goes on.
All that's true. But - so is it true that Nanaimo tops Victoria in this case. :smile:
I cannot possibly even begin to comprehend that number attached to 900 square feet of living space. I am soooooooooo out of touch. I am hyperventilating, I have turned blue and I'm passing out again.
Well Nanaimo it is then - thank you all for your advice!! Oh and Darkbeaver, I dont work after dark haha x
South Beach Miami Florida Party capitol of the world, No problem getting a job in nursing, and not an expensive place to live.
I have to agree. I was amazed that anyone would buy something so small for so much. They do not have children and do not ever intend to. Kind of too late now anyway. They are approaching their mid 40's. Still - I cannot see how they would spend that amount of money so they can live downtown Vancouver and I would never be able to live in such a small space. I live in a 1500 sq. ft. home that I want to sell because I find it too small. I won't be replacing it with anything like the cost of their home. My son just built himself a home here. It is about 4000 sq. feet and his cost is under theirs (he's a builder).
It's uncanny how things change. I just got to thinking back to when I was a kid in a family of 6 who lived for years in a house 32' X 22' and when I first started working I worked with a guy who had a wife and 3 kids living in an 8' X 36' trailer, so families living in 900 sq. ft. aren't all that hard done by. There's an old saying that you grow to fill the space you have..............ain't it the truth?
P.S. Of course in those days we didn't have 55" T.V.s to take up valuable space either, but the radios were fairly big.
First place I lived in on the Barkerville highway was a mere 175 ft square log cabin built in the Great Depression. It was quite comfortable. I moved from that into a 9' X 16' tool shed I fixed up and added a 7' X7' bedroom. I miss that place. It really showed me how silly people are. Oh ya! I only spent $200 dollars and lived in it for 5 years, no rent, taxes or utility bills. Life was really good back then.