Vancouver

I've accepted the fact that I'm not the kind of person to move away from my family. There is no place appealing enough for me to relocate my life, yet I admire so many that do. My siblings are so young. My parents are always working hard. I find it almost selfish of me to leave. I graduated university this year and a part of me would like to move away to experience what it's like, but the other half knows my heart is, right here. Home. Vancouver.

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I moved across country

Aug 28, 2014 at 3:50pm

for professional reasons like promotion and more money. Its been more years away from my home city than I care to remember and I do have thoughts in back of my mind I am a failure in a sense and not talented enough to have the same things I have now without leaving my home town. I am an architect.

There is no glory in having to settle in city away from home. Don't do it if its not necessary.

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heh

Aug 28, 2014 at 4:14pm

Vancouver is a rather nice city to live in. I have lived throughout the world and found few places with the number of easily accessible amenities as Vancouver. HOWEVER, Vancouver breeds bad people. Vancouverites are the most self-centered shallow critical people I have ever met - not all certainly (there are plenty of truly good ones) but nowhere else in Canada do so many people have enough money to be douches all the time. If you do decide to move elsewhere, you'll see Vancouver differently I think.

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British guy living in Vancouver

Aug 28, 2014 at 8:40pm

You get just the one life that we know of for sure… so live! If you have even one little wish somewhere inside you that you want more, trust me, that feeling will never leave and if you never go for it, you'll regret it your entire life.
Moving abroad or even a town over can be daunting, but nothing says it has to be forever :)
Many of us are privileged here in the west, we have the option to choose our path to some extent, we get to experience life as an adventure if we so wish… it is what you make of it. Go for it! :)

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worst

Aug 29, 2014 at 2:03am

Confession. Ever. Boohoo I like living at home but it's like living at home waaah.

4 thumbs down, 2 are my big toes.

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Devil's Advocate

Aug 29, 2014 at 11:23am

I'm going to guess that culturally, you're probably not being encouraged to move out either. I'm the same as you - I don't feel I need to live anywhere but here, but a part of me regrets not branching outward when I could. I didn't go to UVIC because I didn't want my parents to pay more for my university than they had to (it ended up I paid for a good chunk of it anyway, living at home, so there went that). I started working right after university with a good job, so I let the money I was making influence my choice to not go travelling the world like I wanted to (ironic, since I had the money to do so). And then I bought a condo and I'm rooted to Vancouver until I decide to sell and uproot somewhere else...which will probably be never.

My point is - you have ties, but they're the kind that will reach all over the globe if that's where it took you. If you truly feel like you don't want to go forth and find your own way, then continue to admire the people that do. But if you're just saying that because you're scared of the unknown, then that's the reason you should do it. I liked the way I turned out so far, but I know I'd be a totally different person if I had done the travelling and lived abroad like I wanted to.

Be bold, if that's what you want!

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Follow your heart...

Aug 29, 2014 at 5:56pm

...and if your heart is in Vancouver, then stay with full enthusiasm and no regret. Maybe 10 year from now, or 30, or so you might know it's time to travel. Don't let anyone pressure you into leaving when you're not ready. THAT would be a disaster. It's you who must be ready, not other people. PS - it's not true that Vancouver breeds bad people. Vancouver-born people are lovely. It's the assholes who come here from elsewhere that suck.

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I left home

Aug 29, 2014 at 8:43pm

I left to study and work abroad, and to experience new environments. I'm mostly happy to have done it. I used to believe that work and other activities could keep me busy and happy. However, as I age, I increasingly feel the need to be surrounded by family, friends and loved ones. It's harder to make friendships that last when you're an adult. A lot of times, I feel like I'm missing out on many life events of the people that are important to me because I live so far away. I'm planning to redirect my career to move closer to home and to be at least within travelling distance by car.

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funny how....

Aug 30, 2014 at 1:14pm

people reply to these sort of comments as how vancouverites are the biggest assholes-self centered-shallow-money oriented-etc etc.....and the big mess of wealthy slant eyed people in this city. SAME people also influence the ones born and raised here on how to be rude selfish pricks. Move before they suck your soul .

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