In Metro Vancouver during the 20th century we always had many East Asians and smaller minorities (Italians, Blacks, Indians, Jews, Natives, Japanese) with a majority white.
That seemed to work fine. Vancouver was the best large city in Canada to live in, better than Toronto and Montreal.
But now Whites have become a minority in Metro Vancouver, with large numbers of South Asians and people from Muslim countries coming here since 2000, and especially since Trudeau came into power in 2015. The demographics have changed radically. Some suburbs like Richmond have a majority of East Asians, who are generally very polite and pleasant and generally not overtly racist toward whites. Others like crime-riddled Surrey have a majority of South Asians, who sometimes openly express hatred for white people and are often very rude and arrogant. Burnaby has a minority white population, with many enclaves of various non-white ethnicities, including a very large number of South and East Asians. Some of the outlying suburbs like North Vancouver, White Rock and South Delta still have a majority of white people, but that's changing fast.
- people don't talk to people outside their communities. Vancouver was unusually friendly for a large city when I arrived from Toronto in 1991, but not so now
- the cost of housing has skyrocketed, there is a housing shortage and thousands of homeless people (mostly whites). Younger White people are living at home with their parents into their thirties, and not marrying and having children due to the high cost of housing
- driving in the city has become unpleasant and stressful, with constant danger from numerous aggressive South Asian drivers especially the truckers
- white people are being deliberately hit by automobiles at crosswalks, especially by young South Asian men in Surrey
- public transit has not kept up with the increase in population, buses and skytrains are overly crowded, people are left behind at stops
- there are frequent instances of groups of young South Asians (especially Punjabis) bullying, harassing and intimidating white men. White people have been leaving the large suburb of Surrey because of the high crime rate and harassment by South Asians
- pesticide use on the farms on the edge of the metropolitan area has increased with the increase in Punjabi farmers who have purchased most of the land, swallows and other wildlife are suffering the effects. More pesticides are used in the parks, this was not permitted even five years ago.
- there is discrimination in the workplace against whites, with male Asian managers firing and refusing to hire white men and unattractive white women
- white women are choosing non-white husbands, and white men have been choosing East Asian women. It appears that every black man has a white wife or girlfriend, black women tend to be single. If race is a "social construct" why do black men prefer white women?
- A Jewish man I used to work with told me he's worried about the huge number of Muslims that have come to Canada, because according to him many are "anti-Semitic". But as a Christian, I've never had a problem with Arabs and Persians. They are respectful, unlike South Asians who seem to greatly enjoy intimidating older white men.
- the quality of work and the competence of workers has decreased, with lower standards becoming acceptable
- there is more garbage everywhere the past few years, sadly some people from third world countries refuse to recycle.
Vancouver used to be a wonderful city to live in, but that has changed in the past few years. It's still beautiful with the mountain parks and everything, but mass immigration has greatly reduced the quality of life here.
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