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Originally Posted by Special K
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I was thinking mainly in terms of the highschool not having good rankings.
I actually live in Burnaby South right now but will be moving soon.
Burnaby South for a long time has been a little on the sketchy side due to the proximity of Skytrain stations, and the clusters of low/lower income housing. A lot of the low rent low rises are being demolished and being converted to high rises around Metrotown.
There are pockets of houses that are quite nice, but the prices have gone up significantly as well. The lot sizes typically are larger than East Van, so a 2m - 2.5m would buy you 5-7000sqft of land whereas that would maybe buy you 4000sqft in Vancouver.
The whole thing about lower socioeconomic status is true. These people don't have as much money to maintain their houses, put money in updating, etc. Overall makes the neighbourhood not look as nice.
Also keep in mind Burnaby South is higher density than many parts of GVRD. There are lots of older low rises and townhouses, lots of duplex lots, and they are adding more. There are pros and cons to it
The pros being more ppl and and better sense of a community, way more child care services to choose from.
The cons would be more traffic and more noise. The intersections of Nelson/Imperial, Patterson/Imperial, Royal Oak/Rumble are all particular bad sections that have a hard time handling all the volume.