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Wow, I haven't said anything about where I am since April. Well, still in Vancouver, though making preps to finally leave. I'm in my third location since that place. I'll break them up.
First, two weeks in Surrey, another suburb, this one SE of Vancouver. It was a a very basement apartment, and I think the whole house was being run as a hotel; I could hear STOMP STOMP STOMP at 12:30 am and 5:30 am, making sleep challenging. Usually basements at least are under a family house where people sleep. The suite was half the size and twice the price of my previous one, which ain't good, and the kitchen kind of lame. OTOH it was fairly pretty, good decoration effort so you didn't feel you were in a sterile basement.
As for the area, it was passable. I feared when my Lyft drove me up, sidewalks seemed sparse. In fact many of the side streets had none, though the busy roads had at least one side; this is inferior to Richmond. Supermarket was 15 minutes away, also a train station, which was superior to Richmond. I actually got in quite a lot of walking, a mix of longer distances and nicer weather than I'd had recently. There were some surprisingly nice parks around, including an unnamed creek area that was hard to get into but definitely an overgrown ravine.
I walked to central Surrey some, but also took the train (gasp) to New Westminster, which had some nice stuff.
The STOMP STOMP got better later, so I wonder if it was a guest room above me, with nicer guests later; my first thought had been a kitchen, because I thought I heard garbage disposals running. Anyway, I was happy it was only 2 weeks.
Supposedly there was paid laundry on site, but you had to call someone, and that sounded annoying so I took my bag to a nearby laundromat and splurged on wash-and-fold service. It was rather sybaritic to come back (from walking around more, so not having to babysit machines) and pick up a bag of perfectly folded warm laundry. I won't make a habit of it, but yeah, nice.
Spoilers: next places were a week in Port Moody, then back to east Vancouver, even further east along Hastings and Pender.
First, two weeks in Surrey, another suburb, this one SE of Vancouver. It was a a very basement apartment, and I think the whole house was being run as a hotel; I could hear STOMP STOMP STOMP at 12:30 am and 5:30 am, making sleep challenging. Usually basements at least are under a family house where people sleep. The suite was half the size and twice the price of my previous one, which ain't good, and the kitchen kind of lame. OTOH it was fairly pretty, good decoration effort so you didn't feel you were in a sterile basement.
As for the area, it was passable. I feared when my Lyft drove me up, sidewalks seemed sparse. In fact many of the side streets had none, though the busy roads had at least one side; this is inferior to Richmond. Supermarket was 15 minutes away, also a train station, which was superior to Richmond. I actually got in quite a lot of walking, a mix of longer distances and nicer weather than I'd had recently. There were some surprisingly nice parks around, including an unnamed creek area that was hard to get into but definitely an overgrown ravine.
I walked to central Surrey some, but also took the train (gasp) to New Westminster, which had some nice stuff.
The STOMP STOMP got better later, so I wonder if it was a guest room above me, with nicer guests later; my first thought had been a kitchen, because I thought I heard garbage disposals running. Anyway, I was happy it was only 2 weeks.
Supposedly there was paid laundry on site, but you had to call someone, and that sounded annoying so I took my bag to a nearby laundromat and splurged on wash-and-fold service. It was rather sybaritic to come back (from walking around more, so not having to babysit machines) and pick up a bag of perfectly folded warm laundry. I won't make a habit of it, but yeah, nice.
Spoilers: next places were a week in Port Moody, then back to east Vancouver, even further east along Hastings and Pender.