[Buckeye McFrog]

Vancouver is the same, it’s a beautiful city, but I never saw more bums in my life.

Their biggest problem is that they're about the only city in Canada where one can live on the streets without fear of freezing to death. So bums flock there.

[libstripper]

“Their biggest problem is that they’re about the only city in Canada where one can live on the streets without fear of freezing to death. So bums flock there.”

LOL!! Quite true. Chicago’s miserable climate is the only thing that keeps it from having a vagrancy problem worse than San Francisco’s. I’ve decided not to us the PC term “homeless” because it characterizes a bunch of vile vagrants as not responsible for their own fate, which most of them are.

[steve86]

On the hill (Grouse Mountain) right at the edge of the city:

The average annual precipitation is 2730mm. Autumn is the wettest season with 421.4 mm (16.59 in) of precipitation falling in November alone. Winters are cool and snowy, with an average of 868.7 centimetres (342.0 in) of snow falling annually.

But not that cold!