there's a gender War going on.....right ?

Negativity attracts more negativity. You sound like a person that makes excuses for your own failings and want to blame the whole city for your situation.
The truth is that most people could care less about your problems. If you want a partner you need to stop doing whatever you have been doing up to this point because it clearly doesn't work. Try a different approach and stop feeling sorry for yourself. A positive and confident attitude is worth much more than all the beauty and money in the world.

Your analogy to a junior high dance regarding the social culture in Vancouver is fitting. As we all know, the Vancouver area is very cliquish and exclusionary. People make most of their friends in school here, and only allow a few people into their circle. That's if they "look" the part and have the right social/financial status to fit in. On top of that, there's a constant obsession with social climbing. So, even if you do make some friends, they're constantly on the lookout for "better" people to associate with.
Men from this city don't approach you as often as transplants do because they learn the unwritten rules of dating at an early age in Vancouver. Flirting and socializing with women is reserved for a certain demographic of men and restricted for others. If a man isn't tall enough/ attractive enough/ educated enough / rich enough, (and oftentimes the right color) then he's supposed to keep his mouth shut and not speak to women unless spoken to if he doesn't want to be seen as a "creep" who harasses women. I mean, these days even looking at a woman is considered predatory if the guy looking at her isn't her type.
Anyways, most men have no interest in bothering women by approaching them when they already know that they are undesirable. That's the way it is here and its not going to change. Women are saying loud and clear that they would happily remain single rather than (gasp) settle, by dating a man who isn't up to par. So, because most men aren't tone deaf, they appraise what they have to offer, see that they don't measure up, and resolve to leave women alone and not bother them by approaching.

So either gender not trying to ask the other gender out because they think that they wouldn’t be interested in a date. Hmmmm....that seems awfully judgemental when you haven’t actually asked the person if they would be interested in doing a date. Before judging if someone interested; one should ask the person out. You don’t know what the other person is thinking!

The better you communicate the better your chances. You sound like a whining drone. Lots of company on here for you, find a way to meet each other.

More like a Total War: in the last century we saw the creation of drug prohibition, municipal zoning prohibition, sexual prohibition, alcohol prohibition, income tax filing commandments, all sorts of things. It is a Total War upon every domain of human activity. All human activity is to be subjected to a Totalizing Programme.

The sexual prohibitions are really just the icing on the Totalitarian Cake. You can't open a business without following written policies. You can't sell clothes without following written policies. You can't sell food without following written policies. You cannot do anything without writing. Obviously this is intended to discriminate against the illiterate and those who prefer oral tradition. The subjugation of human sexual activity to an ever-shifting written policy, as opposed to an evolved tradition, is simply the coup de grace.

The hilarious part is that it 100% recapitulates the behavior that would have been expected from black slaves toward white women. Spin the Bottle states it quite aptly: "he's supposed to keep his mouth shut and not speak to women unless spoken to if he doesn't want to be seen as a "creep" who harasses women." This is the exact same behavior that was expected of black slaves, they were not to "chat" with the White ladies.

Now that all men are _______ and all women are White Ladies, is that really emancipation?

Youre damn right. Insanity is when u do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result

Did all your friends meet their SOs?

Don't listen to that other nonsense.

"I'd like to do certain hobbies, but am limited financially."

You have basically spelled it out that you're poor however do not worry it's not a bad thing, it's a great thing and so are you. We all have wings.

My Grandparents just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and they both started out with nothing. No money, little schooling basically poor like you.

In those 60 years they had five kids and those kids had kids etc... i Think we are up to 50 plus now. How does 2+2 = 50?

Effort and love.

When they met my grandfather was a lowly repairman but my grandmother saw potential in him and only she knows what she saw. He went on to be a number one world champion shooter for many years and traveled the globe. His love for her has never faltered through breast cancer, death, a brothers suicide and many other ups and down. Their lives aren't perfect by any means but if you could feel the love in that room last night you would believe in anything. I do.

The reason they have made it this far is because they started with nothing and people that have nothing have everything to look forward to. People that have too much are empty and will always be looking to fill up that emptiness with more empty boxes.

The reason most women in Vancouver can't find an authentic man like my Grandfather is because they have this made up fantasy story in their head from reading to many magazines, watching tv shows and a horrible social media addiction that is feeding them useless mental garbage made up by women for women about men and they have no idea what the fuck they are looking for. None of them do, this city is full of beautiful women with nothing upstairs but a dream.

I know this because I am the first grandson therefore I am my grandfather, I have his eyes.

You do not sound like any of these women that I have mentioned instead you sound like you're authentic and trying hard so I feel you on that. Stick it out, I hit 40 and now I finally feel like my wife that I haven't met yet is right around that corner and I'm looking forward to meeting her.

Rules to live by:

Do not sacrifice a single ounce of your happiness and if people do not make time for you enthusiastically then drop them.

If you dream about being married then you will always dream about it.

If being married is a goal then set that goal.

Go for it.