[cdaringe]

Subjective, likely false. No sources listed.

[paul_n]

I live there, that comment made me laugh because there’s definitely some amount of truth in it. I’ve always described west coast Canada as surface nice, but harder to make friends, while Ontario is surface closed off, but a lot easier to make new friends.

[ikmckenz]

The Wikipedia page for the “Seattle freeze” phenomenon mentions it applying to Vancouver[1], also Vancouver has long been known as “No Fun City” because of laws and cultural norms against partying[2].

1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze 2 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/No_Fun_City

[ghostpepper]

I'm not sure of the root causes but British Columbia does seem to have particularly antiquated liquor laws, even compared to the rest of Canada.

[cdaringe]

Y’all aren’t tapped into BC MTB culture. Vibes are thru the roof! Source: me, now :)

Just as subjective as the OP, XD