Coquitlam recorded 43.2 offences per 1,000 residents in 2024, Port Coquitlam 44.0 and Port Moody 29.2. Three police services, a decade of data, and the 2019 counting change nobody mentions.
Golden Ears on your doorstep, the lowest jobs-to-residents ratio in Metro Vancouver, and a transport bill that beats the housing bill. The case both ways, with sources.
Town Centre to Whonnock, area by area, with the planning status, the transit reality and the slope and flood constraints that decide what can be built.
Prices, rent, property tax, utilities and the commute, for Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, including the reason the region says transport costs more here than housing.
Maple Ridge recorded 64.0 offences per 1,000 residents in 2024 and Pitt Meadows 46.3. What that means, what changed when the detachment split, and the risks that actually matter.
The commute, the jobs, the hospital, the schools and the rain, with the case for and against the North Shore set out with sources attached.
Lower Lonsdale to Deep Cove, area by area, with which municipality each one sits in, what the transit is really like and which bridge you will be using.
Rent, house prices, property tax, utilities and transit for both North Vancouvers, with the City and District separated wherever a source allows it.
North Vancouver is two municipalities, and in 2024 one recorded more than twice the crime rate of the other. Here is what the City and District numbers actually show.
Nobody has published a credible Canadian best-places ranking since 2018. So we built one from crime, jobs, healthcare, climate and living-wage data, and published the criteria.
