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VC10 - Cambie Village

Despite the long-term construction pain, the longer-term gain of the new rapid transit Canada Line (attractive new streetscapes and a rush of locally focused businesses and amenities) has been felt most dramatically in Cambie Village. This is a neighbourhood on the verge.

VC10 - Coal Harbour

Coal Harbour occupies a carefully manicured stretch of waterfront between the downtown core and Stanley Park. Joggers skirt the sea beneath glittering glass towers, ritzy hotels, and MIA residents (for many, this hood is a satellite home, a pretty perch for a pricey pied-à-terre)

VC10 - Commercial Drive

Long-time home of the city’s Italian and Portuguese communities, the Drive has welcomed bohos escaping yuppiedom and, more recently, young families settling in to relatively affordable character homes. Add a slate of new restaurants with pedigreed chefs and you’ve got one of the city’s most eclectic and appealing hoods.

VC10 - Downtown Vancouver

Luxury brands and glittery new condo-hotel hybrids dot the landscape of downtown, but there are still signs of vintage Vancouver: casualwear in the business district and North Shore mountains visible beyond the glass towers.

VC10 - Gastown

Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhood, once overrun with tacky tourist shops, is now the epicentre of fashion-forward boutiques and the most exciting restaurants and bars in the city

VC10 - Granville Island

The city’s most-loved public space and top tourist draw packs old tin-sided buildings, a top arts university, and a public market onto a onetime wasteland turned man-made island (cost of the conversion back in the 1970s: $50 million). The newly unveiled Olympic Village nearby makes the island that much more interesting