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Originally Posted by PeanutButter
You know what area I just found out about?
It's the Coquitlam IKEA area.
My cousin recently moved to that area and it's super convenient. I'm in East Van, and he's only 15mins from me and he's right by the highway and he's right by all of the big box stores. They have everything in that area.
I feel like that's a pretty good compromise from living in Van/Burnaby. The value is so much better than Van/Burn and I really like that location.
The only downside I can see is that if you go to Richmond a lot, it's far, but if you don't, I think it's the best value area in the GVRD.
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Maillardville. I grew up "up the hill" from Maillardville nearer to Mundy Park. Had quite a few friends grow up around the neighbourhood around Mackin Park/Place Des Arts.
On the spectrum of Coquitlam, Maillardville is on the sketchier end of things, which is to say not bad at all but there is more petty crime (vandalism, opportunistic theft) and some colourful characters. One of my friends street-parks his Jeep and it was broken into roughly once a year until he started leaving it unlocked.
Public transit wise, it's a weird combination of good (not far from Braid, 1 short bus ride away) and bad (suburb-typical bus frequency, major highways, not great for walking). It's really easy to hop on the highway, but the side effect is that there's always traffic in the area. You're at a confluence of multiple cities headed along Lougheed and Hwy 1.
The run-downness/sketchiness factor are sure to go down over the next decade. It already has by noticeable amount. The busy-ness is only going to increase with towers going up in the area (Loma was sold out), the
Fraser Mills development, plus Burquitlam and Lougheed (with that, hopefully bringing more public transit and other services).
I agree, it's not bad value, but there are reasons it's priced the way it is.
EDIT: Last note... also, in the summer, if the wind is pointed in the right direction you definitely get a good whiff of the dump over at United Boulevard.