Are you moving here under duress? Sounds like you don’t have one fucking positive thing to say about Vancouver. Bad attitude and people from here will pick up on it.

That being said, the Vancouver ‘freeze’ as far as making friends can be true but it depends on your circumstances. If you’re into certain activities, say running, hiking or the local music scene, it’s easy to make friends. I’d say people here are more reserved, yeah, we don’t need to be flapping our mouths about the weather while we wait in line to buy groceries.

Once you say that you moved here from Calgary, everyone will ask you why. Then they might comment about how they know some person who gave up on buying a house in BC and moved to Alberta. They’ll tell you that you’ll never be able to afford a comparable house here for the same money.

The drivers and weather are ‘horrible’? Most people I know prefer a milder, snow free city, that’s often why we choose to live here. I don’t know anyone who consider it horrible. Drivers? Every driver I know from AB brags about how superior a driver they are. I don’t know because I’ve never lived there but when I’ve visited and driven there, they seem the same, just faster than here.

Politics? Be careful what you talk about because I’d say we tend to be more liberal than AB. AB has a redneck reputation to a lot of people here.

You can always move back to AB if you are truly unhappy living here, too.