My personal favorites are the Ivy on Fourth Avenue, which serves the best roast duck in the universe, and the Cannery, which is impossible to beat for great seafood. They are but a couple of the fine eateries you'll find in Vancouver. Living in greater Vancouver is easy, but it's not free. Opportunities do exist in Vancouver, and most doors are open. Unlike the more settled and rigid hierarchies of Canada's great eastern cities, Vancouver welcomes the muscle and talent of newcomers.
Prime time is still work time in Vancouver.
Once on the commercial margin of North America, this city by the sea is becoming recognized as a strategically located nexus of international commerce. Midway in terms of distances and time zones between New York and Tokyo, Vancouver is beginning to think of itself in a radically different way. The significance of this shift in perception is hard to exaggerate. Vancouver already exports more than a quarter of its gross municipal product, which totals more than twice the national average. The city's main economic function has always been that of an entrepot, a transfer point between interior producers and overseas consumers.