I Don't Want to Live Where Animals Aren't Welcome

With only four days left, we decided to do some apartment browsing, checking out our two favourite neighbourhoods and browsing the classifieds.  The Vancouver market is super frustrating, as apartments are rarely listed and most will not allow animals.  Where Ontario has made it illegal to refuse animals, Vancouver has allowed bylaws making it almost impossible to find housing that allows pets.  This is particularly strange, given I've seen more dogs in Vancouver than in any other city I've travelled to.  Where are they all living?  Plus, most buildings don't list a superintendent or manager to contact and/or don't post vacancies.  After a day of looking, we had seen no actual apartments and had no real insight into average costs.  We did, however, have a better sense on where apartments were densest and whether our two favourite neighbourhoods would be safe, friendly, quiet, and clean to live in.  

Mid-way, we stopped at the Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company to have some dinner.  I had passed by it when returning the car and thought it looked like a great little place to grab a bite.  Now I know I've talked a lot about food lately, but generally speaking I'm just not that into it.  Eating is something I do because it is required and occasionally I really enjoy it.  When I really enjoy it, look out.  This place was frickin' fantastic.  Seriously.  I actually googled it, just to see if we had any franchises open in Ontario.  We had a bocconcini pizza that was ridiculous and a brownie that could kill.  Plus, it's almost all organic and they have a carbon tax on their bills.  The waitress was super helpful and gave us some insight to the Kits area and rental strategies.

We spent a bit of the late afternoon at Sunset Beach, camped out on the mats we purchased at the Coombs market and reading a bit.  We then took the ferry over to Kits and grabbed some dinner at Vera's.  We finished the day with the tail end of the sunset, perched on a log at the beach.