Wish I Could Find a Van Chick

To live a life of travelling around, working whenever. But every time I've brought the topic up,all I've gotten is raised eyebrows and a condescending smirk

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For some reason...

Oct 11, 2019 at 3:23pm

... women who want to live in a 30-40' boat or in a van are rare. Go figure. I think it would be awesome, sailing the ocean blue!

If you build it, they will come

Oct 11, 2019 at 3:53pm

...maybe you need to live the van life yourself first.

@If

Oct 11, 2019 at 4:13pm

Already have a 21' Class B, very nice. Results? Crickets......

I'm a Van chick

Oct 11, 2019 at 5:29pm

though my dream is to live on a boat and travel around the world that way.

Small places

Oct 11, 2019 at 5:29pm

My friend went to Europe. And loves it.
She couldn't find happiness here. But there, she found a Dutchman she likes and wants to marry. Because she wants to have children with him (and parental benefits in Europe kick ass) - she's otherwise very "non-traditional". The opposite of a Van Chick.
My ex, on the other hand, became a Van Chick when we moved here, and never wants to leave. Thus why she's my ex, because f*ck this. I'm not staying.
If you're looking for a partner to go places with, go other places and look there. Small places are best for small people. "Provincial" is exactly right.
Europe, on the other hand, is huge, diverse, mostly peaceful, has excellent mass transit, and houses millennia of culture and history. It's also home to almost a billion people.

I've been to Central and South America, all over the US, Europe (east, west, Mediterranean) and Australia. Vancouver is "world-class" only in its small-mindedness and delusions.
Yes, it's preferred over Bangalore and Shenzhen; nicer than Moscow or Prague; people move from Edmonton and Calgary, too...and anywhere is better than Iraq, Myanmar, the DRC and similar.
But it's a dead end. Van is a great hidey-hole, like from the mess in HK (a tradition, heh). Cave here (especially the island and the interior) and no-one will find you. Foreign money-laundering is not an accident. It's by design.
Also note the mobs of resident retirees (Parksville, White Rock, Whistler, etcetera). Who live on fixed incomes, yet drive up prices everywhere they end up. Because supply-demand, ironically. Some nations in Central America are even struggling with gentrification caused by retired North American expats, pricing out the locals. That won't end well.
True of retirement communities everywhere: if you look around and see an older crowd, that's not the dynamic you're looking for. Note that I'm middle-aged, myself. Not my scene, either.

This is a final destination.
Stupid expensive and badly run - George Massey Tunnel, DTES, tent cities (out in the burbs, too), pervasive traffic (even out to Squamish and Chilliwack, now), gouging (gas and insurance highest in Canada by 50+ percent), speculation, corruption, inadequate services, privilege, populism and delusional politicians.
If you have many decades to live, it's a bad place to stay. Or to find mobile, cosmopolitan company. I'm "Just Visiting".

Leave.

Oct 11, 2019 at 7:25pm

Leave Vancouver and go where interesting people go. Complacency and dullness; excuse me, "laid back" and "easy going" is a part of the culture here. Go travelling and meet other travellers. There are cool interesting people out there.

@Small

Oct 11, 2019 at 9:41pm

You're confused by the term Van.
It doesn't mean Vancouver,it means a van. Or RV

@Small places

Oct 12, 2019 at 3:02am

I hear you, the problem is that Vancouver is underperforming---most places perform close to their limit, and they're already so dense (or so tiny) that their development is already fixed or not going anywhere.

Vancouver is interesting because it is growing, will we end up more like Europe (in 200 years) or more like Beijing?

Im ready

Oct 12, 2019 at 9:59am

For a change...
Its happening.
Could always use an intelligent Navigator.

@Small Places

Oct 12, 2019 at 11:01am

“Hidey hole” - I love it

I’m with you; this is temporary and we are planning our exit to a more beautiful and spiritually generous place.

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