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Three BC communities still have typical house assessments under $300,000. Where they are, what rent costs, and what you actually give up to live there.

Three BC communities still have typical house assessments under $300,000. Where they are, what rent costs, and what you actually give up to live there.

Oak Bay records 25 offences per 1,000 residents and Quesnel 271. The gap is mostly arithmetic, and here is how to read BC’s crime rates properly.

Fleetwood and Clayton get SkyTrain in 2029. Guildford and Newton had theirs cancelled. A community-by-community guide on price, transit and who each part suits.

More people added last year than any other BC municipality, a lower crime rate than Vancouver, and 353 portable classrooms. The case for and against, with numbers.

Property crime has halved since 2016 and Surrey’s crime severity sits below Vancouver’s. Violence rose sharply in 2026. Both are true, and here is why.

Three sources give three different average rents for the same apartment. Here is which one applies to you, and what a month actually costs three Vancouver households.

Two of Vancouver’s 24 neighbourhoods account for 43 per cent of reported crime. The police data, laid out honestly, including what it cannot tell you.

A train to downtown, the valley’s cheapest houses, one high school, and an ER that keeps closing overnight. The honest version.

Cedar Valley, Silverdale, Hatzic and the rural north — plus the seven places listed as Mission that aren’t in the City at all.

The crime index everyone quotes for Mission isn’t Mission’s. The town’s own number, the ten-year trend, and what nobody publishes.