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Originally Posted by iwantaskyline
Brentwood or Metrotown for long-term living (5 years)?
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what do you want to see out of each area?
they both offer similar things....lots of restaurants..each side has a community centre (in fact theres 2 around brentwood) and "large parks" and it's easy to walk around....both have superstore/save on/walmart as grocery stores while brentwood has Costco..both also have tennis court/bball fields/swimming centres/lacrosse boxes and bunch of elementary schools and a high school nearby
city of burnaby wants to build metrotown as a "downtown" core but if you want to get to DT brentwood is far better i'd say. If you want to rely on skytrain to get DT metro is better but that expo line breaks down like once a month and when it does its just way too much backlog..there's way more arteries to get around in brentwood since its closer to Van (car2go/evo)...Hastings as a main route and Hwy 1 if you want to get to places
im by brentwood and i find theres a lot of families here with their kids..not sure about metro
i do agree with the traffic and parking problem.....thought they were going to widen Willingdon Ave instead of building a bike lane/walkway