Commenters claim it's natural for Vancouver to be expensive like New York.

HELLO? 

Go to the heart of downtown Vancouver. Now drive away. Drive an hour to South Surrey or White Rock or drive half an hour to Richmond or 15 minutes to the North Shore or the West or East Side.

Those Vancouver area houses commonly sell for TWO MILLION dollars a pop.

That's what you get when you decide, over the course of 30 years, to import billions of dollars of overseas money, most of it in the suitcases of rich investor immigrants.

Now go to the heart of MANHATTAN. Drive about half an hour to get to Levittown or Huntington or Edison or Paterson. There you will find 100 houses for sale in the range of 250,000 to 450,000 dollars, neighborhoods filled with regular workers at regional jobs, blue collar and white collar, buying homes on local incomes.

That's what the Vancouver region had, BEFORE IT imported billions of dollars of overseas money, most of it in the suitcases of investor immigrants.