I can't stand the modern Vancouver

I was born and raised here, even just witnessing the change from the late 2000s to now is startling. For decades, Vancouver was an industrial city, built around logging and the ports. But as industry has gone by the wayside, the city and its people have completely failed to come up with any sort of identity, any sort of culture. Whatever remnants of the past that do remain get bulldozed in place of a Concord Pacific or Onni tower in "gentrification grey". They are endlessly boring to look at, still far too expensive to afford, and clutter up the skyline massively. Why look at the mountains when you could have a giant glass tower in the way?

It's a city that doesn't know what it wants to be. The people are arguably even colder than Seattle, it's less affordable than Toronto but about 100x less fun than Toronto. There's a real lack of working class attitudes. Everybody here is either a rich asshole, or moved here decades ago and has become embittered at the state of the city. It just feels like a melting pot of bland.

Just looking at areas like Brentwood, Metrotown, Coquitlam Centre, Burquitlam, Coal Harbour in the 80s and 90s. Hell, even on Google street view from 2009 is a stark difference. It genuinely makes me sad, I watched my city become a boring gentrification hellscape and now I hardly recognize it anymore.