Thanks for any advice you can give,
Larkin

Twitter/Facebook can’t completely replace more traditional blogs/websites. Just the same way phone and e-mail can’t completely replace in-person communication. The trick is to learn how to best communicate in each of these situations and when it is best to use these other methods of communication.

I think it comes down to what you want to accomplish and who your intended audience is.

Driving a Mercedes, dressed in a Harry Rosen suit creates a great first impression and having lunch at Lumierre, but truth is you don’t know that the guys credit card is maxed and he can barely afford to put the gas in his Mercedes.

There are about 10 wealthy families who are the aristocracy in Vancouver. They or their offspring still live in Shaugnessy. The rest are the drug lords who also live side by side in Shaugnessy.

That’s old money. New money in Vancouver lies in the hands of the wealthy Asian fathers who may purchase a 1.5 million dollar home on the west side, leave their wife, grandmother and kids in their house on in the catchment area to qualify for registering their kids at Prince of Wales Secondary, the best academic high school in Vancouver. Then they return to Hong Kong to create more wealth. This is not a racist issue, it;s a FACT. You could be Ukrainian and do the same thing.

And you wonder where the wealth lies. Surrey last year hosted wealthy Asian businessmen to lure them to invest in Surrey. These are not VC or Angel Investors ready to invest in your startup or entrepreneurial venture. Banks aren’t interested either unless you have assets or a spouse with a good paying job.

“Love Money”- family and friends is and always has been the best source for seed money in Vancouver. The Business Development Bank has pretty much the same reputation for lending as banks, and they are not risk aversive.

So who has money here? Do you? Probably not if you are considering leaving the most expensive place to buy and live in North America.

Vancouver is like the beautiful rich girl in high school, who you couldn’t take your eyes off of, you were addicted to her and almost stalking her, but you knew only the rich quarterback driving the chevy convertible would stand a chance to date her.

Doing “bizziness” in Vancouver is a way of life here. People are dancing as fast as they can here, and everybody is still pursuing the beautiful girl, in the hopes that one day she will embrace you and accept you for just who you are; the poor handyman’s son who drives a 54 Monarch.

It’s not a question of when you will leave, but how long you want to keep chasing the brass ring, knowing full well that the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.

But it’s like a group of alcoholics who sit around and say that they want to stop drinking and they all turn to one another and say : “Okay You First”!