I’m Teng and I have been living in Vancouver for 7 years and counting. I created this website because I receive increasing number of questions from friends and family who recently moved—or plan to move—to Vancouver. I hope this guide can help cover a large ground of quick questions, and can help you get started on your research.

In the years I’ve been a student at UBC; I’ve worked for a few employers around Vancouver. I have rented and lived on UBC campus, Point Grey, Joyce–Collingwood, Downtown, and Metrotown, and I recently became a homeowner. I hope I can provide good help from the experience, while still having the empathy on what a newcomer might experience.

Disclaimer

In absolutely no way does this website offer advice on legal, financial, tax, medical, or health advice. Information on this website is provided as-is, without any warranty of its truth, completeness, timeliness, or accuracy. Information provided here might change or be removed without notice. In no way should you hold this website and its owner accountable for the information provided.

This website is not associated or endorsed by Vancouver International Airport.

By browsing, using, or sharing contents from this website, you agree to the terms above.

Affiliation

This website is not affiliated with anything we recommend. We do not receive anything by linking to another website, to an app, or by recommending anything.

Contribution

We have a lot to cover, and information might get stale. If you spot something, please let me know by emailing .

I might make the website’s repository open-source, so those who are able can submit pull requests—but I’m not there yet.

Considerations of this site

Accessible

I don’t do weird things with this website. It should work well with any accessibility tools that magnifies text, or read out the contents.

If you experience any technical difficulties, kindly let me know.

Searchable

Again, I don’t do weird things with this website. There is nothing that moves around on the pages. Just press Ctrl + F (Windows) or Cmd + F (macOS) to bring up the search field in your browser. On iPhone and iPad, you can search the page with the address bar.

Under most section titles, there is a string of hashtagged keywords. You can add # to your search term to search only in titles.

Print-friendly

Any page of the website can be printed, either to physical paper or to a PDF file, and they should look great. In this way, I hope I can make any useful information available offline.

Share-able

To share any page, share the URL. In many pages you can see a “Permalink” under the section title—this link will take you directly to the section.

Static

For the tech-curious, this website is static. Hopefully, this has helped with the other considerations above, and helped to keep down the cost of the website.