Demento is being sarcastic, I think. Vancouver sold its soul out a long time ago. But luxury condos in Chinatown? You couldn't pay me to wake up to the smell of urine, to have a passed out homeless addict in front of my building. It's simply a way for the "new" chinese from the mainland to park their money. We ALL know that. I suspect Council and the mayor know that too but the mayor's wife is of course a mainlander and anytime we say anything about it we are considered racist.