Homeless Whites in Vancouver
Vancouver is one of those faraway places which has a special ring for an Austrian like me. Being situated almost on the other side of the world, it has long been in my mind synonymous with a place very distant and different from home — and thus potentially interesting to visit. Over time my curiosity was further raised by the vivid accounts of school-mates who had travelled and even migrated there. Much of what they said sounded charming, so I was happy to be eventually able to relate their experiences with what I saw with my own eyes.
But there was also the Sinocouver I have been reading about lately. An Asian bridgehead where the locals are priced out of the market by soft-colonial methods, a city which is selling out its soul to globalism and multiculturalism. Being a tourist who is generally interested in the distinctiveness of places and peoples I have come to dislike the random and replaceable character of 'diverse' cities. You see one of them, you've seen them all — like an airport lounge.
Still, I was excited when my Greyhound bus descended from the mountainous interior of British Columbia into Fraser Valley. This is the story of my recent 24 h trip to Van, seen through the eyes of a European traveller on the look-out for Canada. ...
http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2017/11/impressions-from-vancouver.html#more
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