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Originally Posted by Liquid_o2
As an urban planner, Langley is one of the last places I would want to be from a livability context. I always see Langley as the most "Americanized" sprawl cities in Metro Vancouver. It's just housing subdivision after subdivision, random ALR/rural areas that bisect the subdivisions, strip malls and shopping plazas as far the eye can see, and a crappy old downtown that has been abandoned for big box stores. BLAH. I hate what it has become.
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I agree 100%
There is a give and take with the area. My kid's schools are good, but they're hard to get to with the number of folks driving on the same old two lane roads. The density made it impossible for me to get across town early this morning, but it offers huge opportunities for sports to help round out my kids. Volleyball and basketball at the events center, and 9 sheets of ice to go with bike trails and parks. But there are also the numerous strip malls. The Giants are coming to the LEC, and I have no idea where everyone is going to park. The current lot is often full for non event evenings, and the 80 car gravel lot they added isn't going to do a damn thing.
It's not the town I grew up in. My caucasian wife was raised in Richmond and she complains that nothing she remembers as a kid is left. Her childhood farm, her school, friends houses... all gone. It's starting to be that way in Langley now. Fort Langley is basically doubling in size as the old 1/2 acre parcels are being subdivided into
"huge" 10,000sq' lots. Again, with all of the old road infrastructure. It's a joke.