I see you voted "agree" to your own post.

Unfortunately your post reflects what, for too many Canadians, has become a mythical delusion. Oh, look, Vancouver and Toronto are world class, the world's rich want to move to Vancouver and Toronto because our cities are like New York and Paris.

Um, no.

Good schools. Period. Good schools are the number one reason why rich breadwinners of Hong Kong and Mainland China have bought up, en masse, detached houses in Vancouver and Toronto. It is no coincidence that the first neighbourhoods to skyrocket the most and fastest have been neighbourhoods with good schools.

You can spread the national myth that Vancouver's lovely, um, Broadway and Granville with all their, um, New York and Paris-like urban cosmopolitan appeals (roll eyes) are what are pulling in overseas millionaires. 

But nope, wrong. Walk thirty blocks to the south and west and you will see the real reason, reflected in the massively-changed demographics of kids on the school field.