A somewhat popular place in Vancouver for restaurants/night life is yaletown. It's somewhat scuzzy and expensive, but it has brick buildings I guess? Plenty of

A somewhat popular place in Vancouver for restaurants/night life is yaletown. It's somewhat scuzzy and expensive, but it has brick buildings I guess? Plenty of fantastic places in Vancouver with character, but I don't understand that one. (And I work there.) But I know the kind of blandness you're talking about. Richmond somehow is a metropolis that feels like a desert.