I disagree with the umbrella thing. I grew up so used to the rain that I don't ever use one. Heck, when I go abroad that tell people "I'm don't use an umbrella, I'm from Vancouver"
Umbrellas are for tourists and pansies. You live here, you've got gumboots and a good rain coat from North face or MEC.... or you just TAKE IT
Whether you’re trash-talking the weather, moaning about Vancouver being an unfriendly city (while chatting warmly with me, a stranger!) or just grizzling about how no-fun the city is (always when you’re on your way to an exciting-sounding event) you lot love to whine. Is it because you live in paradise?"
The video was made by Matt Dennison and Jason Lucas, the Vancouver team behind "I Fucking Hate That" and the recent viral video "Shit Canadians Say, Eh?"
If you liked "How To Be A Vancouverite" then you might enjoy some of these articles that inspired us to make this video!
Be a douchebag on a bike. We’ve given up entire lanes so that cyclists can have a neon-green safe zone to bike along. And what do many do in return? Swerve through traffic as they please, forgo hand signals, flip you off if you so much as move an inch while they do it.
Oh, and if you’re a hipster cyclist, that’s even worse: draped in plaid and lacking a helmet, on a single-speed vintage bike, with one hand and both eyes on their smart phone probably instagraming their bike basket — literally cruising through life with not an ounce of concern for anything around them.
