- that Vancouver is a rain forest? Despite it being a "wet" city, it has lower avg. rainfall that Boston, MA...it can get quite gray in the winter though!
- that Vancouver has the mildest climate in all of Canada. It is usually 40 degrees here in the winter, so no, we do not get snow when New York does!
- that the 3 Fairmont Hotels in Vancouver only get their garbage picked up once a week? Everything else is recycled or reused...amazing!
- that the city of Vancouver is trying to be the greenest city in the world by 2020?
- that all American citizens, even if living abroad, need to file their taxes EVERY YEAR?
- that American citizens get penalized severely (from a tax perspective) if they invest in mutual funds, while living outside the U.S?
- that B.C. is the 3rd largest producer of blueberries in the world?
- that a resident of Vancouver is called a Vancouverite?
- that the city of Vancouver has no highways downtown?
- that Pamela Anderson, Jason Priestley, Nelly Furtado and Michael J. Fox (among many others) are from the Vancouver area?
- that B.C. has a beautiful wine country, known as the "Napa Valley of the North"?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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