OK you win..
You have no idea what it's like here. Easterners, especially Torontians don't do well here. Most I know who have come here leave in the first two years. Unless you are high tech, a server in the hospitality industry or in construction jobs are scarce, in fact not available at all for Millenials. You will pay [right now] $1.31 per litre and we have a 5/7 sales tax system. Property taxes are the highest in the nation, driving up rental costs. Officially Vancouver has had a '0' Vacancy rate since the late 1970's. A one bedroom in the city will start around $900 for anything livable, or you go to the suburbs and commute... whole other story.
There are no expressways within city limits. Sky Train covers a good potion of the area but is expensive and packed during rush hour. And as Vancouver has been waging war on the internal combustion engine for 50 years, all arteries have traffic signals ate EVERY intersection. Everyone jaywalks. As well, cultural differences come into play, as some new Chinese have never driven before and most are still learning. Indians are professional drivers who, with a big friendly smile, cut you off routinely will talking on their hands free cellphone. Cycles rule, there are something like $250 million in bike lanes, and even then they use arteries. Add some Americans, and European tourists 12 months of the year and you can see it takes a special kind of zen to do that all the time.
We live outside, take long coffee breaks and get done what needs getting done on rainy days. Just about everyone smokes pot and everyone everywhere jay walks...there is virtually NO police intervention in such pettiness. And we are polite. You may not see it, but I do when I am east, you guys are rude. You stand out in Vancouver because of it.
You cannot make friends here. Seriously. We are friendly, open, always helpful, but it is the hardest city in the world in which to make friends quickly. It has been said "Vancouver is the greatest party no one gets invited to."
If you are open, easy going a non-smoker and not terribly career oriented, you might do OK. But, most I have seen figure all that is too high a price to pay for natural beauty.