World resort cities really do not need a lot of gas stations. They are not real cities. They are more like a cross between Disneyland and a cruise ship.

As long as there are good roads for the short trip to the airport, with its flights to Hong Kong and Beijing and Shanghai and Chongqing, and as long as there are gas stations near the airport to fuel the high end cars jotting to the airport from Kerrisdale and Shaugnessey and Dunbar, that is all that the world resort city needs, that is all its millionaires need who work overseas.

No need for hardware stores or books stores or corner stores. And the service workers who dash in and out of the world resort city (teachers, nurses, etc), they can buy their gas and goods thirty miles away, where they live, in the service enclaves of Surrey and Port Coquitlam.

They key thing to understand here is that world resort cities are not real cities, in the culturally traditional sense of Canadian cities.