Vancouver Lifestyle

 

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Ideally placed between mountains and ocean, on the Pacific Rim, and close to the United States border, Vancouver, BC, Canada is an increasingly popular tourist destination for travelers who want both spectacular natural beauty and modern, cosmopolitan luxury. Here at Vancouver.com, we get tons of e-mails from prospective visitors looking for information on Vancouver travel and tourism. Readers all over the globe want to know what to see, where to stay, how to get around and when to come.

We're excited to show everyone what our city has to offer and eager to provide information to make traveling and touring Vancouver an unforgettable visit.

 

Surrounded by water on three sides and nestled alongside the Coast Mountain Range, Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia with over half a million residents and one of the mildest climates in Canada. Home to spectacular natural scenery and a bustling metropolitan core, Vancouver will be home to the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2010. Whether just relaxing in a park or bike riding around the seawall, there is always something to do in Vancouver.

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Vancouver is consistently ranked one of the three most livable cities in the world. According to a 2008 report by Mercer Human Resource Consulting for example, Vancouver has the fourth highest quality of living in the world, after Zürich, Vienna and Geneva and ranked first in a survey by magazine 'The Economist'. In 2007, according to Forbes, Vancouver had the 6th most overpriced real estate market in the world and second in North America after Los Angeles. In 2007, Vancouver was ranked Canada's second most expensive city to live after Toronto and the 89th most expensive globally, and, in 2006, the 56th most expensive city in which to live among 143 major cities in the world. In 2007, Vancouver was ranked as the 10th cleanest city in the world.

 

The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver and nearby Whistler.