Vancouver has been seen as "cliquey and flaky" long before the money flooded in but probably exasperates the problem. I agree with Douglas Coupland who talks a

Vancouver has been seen as "cliquey and flaky" long before the money flooded in but probably exasperates the problem. I agree with Douglas Coupland who talks about it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Glass_(Coupland_book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Glass_(Coupland_book). People from more populous parts of the country in Ontario and Quebec come to Vancouver for the western adventure part of their lives and eventually return to Toronto or Montreal. So locals and even other "transplants" see little upside to forming deep long lasting relationships. Now we have wealthy trans-national elites who come here to get their papers and have almost no contact with people outside their immediate circle. >Some ethnic Chinese migrants in Richmond have told UBC researcher John Rose: “(Canadian citizenship) is more like an insurance policy.” Other transnationals refer to their years waiting in a new land for a passport as “immigration hell.” https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/the-unsettled-lives-of-wealthy-transnational-migrants https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/the-unsettled-live...