Yeah, we have people from all over here, and they have definitely enriched the place. My son married a Filipino, and we inherited a very large extended family. So we are kept very busy, just with family, not too mention keeping up with all our other friends.
However, we don't have the problems that we hear about down south with illegal immigrants, etc. Having said that, we do have a large and growing homeless population. Nothing to do with immigration, though, just govt policy (drug addiction, etc), very similar to Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. A real shame actually. I used to work downtown (retired now), and Vancouver was a nice clean, safe city then and often rated a most livable city in the world. Not now, though, as the parks and green spaces have been taken over by tent cities. And one of the major downtown streets (Hastings) has turned into a flea market for stolen goods. We avoid parking downtown now, unless it is in a secured inside parking garage. Actually, we avoid going downtown period, now, except when we have to for various reasons.
