COMMENT BY
AAN from Vancouver, WA
COMMENT ABOUT PLACE
Vancouver, WA
COMMENT
I love this town
Other reviewers are complaining that the city has changed. Guess what. All cities change over time, and they do get busier as the population grows. Are we, who are priced out of other areas, expected to stay in those areas and be homeless so that cities like Vancouver don't change? I remember this town when I was a kid (moved to Bay Area as an adult), and it was once a dump. We came up a few times a year to get things we couldn't in Oregon. Vancouver was such a dump that many people in Portland still think this town is a dirty, gross place and still call it Vantucky. Many, many Portlanders refuse to come here because of how bad it used to be, and it was bad enough they still expect it to be that way.
Now we have a safe, clean city with beautifully-built shopping centers. We have better roads. It's just plain a cleaner, nicer place. Yet people are complaining it's changed? Do those people want to go back to the filth?
This is a safe city that has changed as all cities do. Yes, it sucks getting priced out. We live at least two states away from our families since we were priced out and refused to go to economically depressed areas to stay in the state we were in. We could love to be back in the coastal city that is home to us. We know what it's like to be priced. We were priced out from the top. No one gets driven into top places like San Francisco or Santa Barbara. You get driven out, move to places like Portland and Vancouver, and it continues on down. We all need to live somewhere, and cities will always, always change. That's just how it is, and we can't stop that.
Vancouver is a safe, still relatively affordable place, which is why a lot of middle-class and poor people are still moving here.