Is yaletown a safe place to have walk at night?

Question

I wanna move to yaletown after 2 months and I heard that downtown vancouver is not safe at all.I heard there are many homeless people in downtown vancouver especially near eastside area.Also i heard people are suffering from bedbugs!!!! It sounds downtown vancouver is such a terrible place to live in.Is that true? Help me!!!

Answer 1

Yaletown is a very upscale "yuppie" "preppie" part of Vancouver. I have spent a lot of time in Yaletown and never once have I seen any problems. Yaletown is not particularly close to the downtown east side. That's where the horror stories come from.

Answer 2

Yaletown is as safe as any part of a big city to walk at night. I'm a woman in my twenties and I've walked through Yaletown at night several times without any problems at all.



The Yaletown area is to the south of the Downtown Eastside area and is primarily new apartment buildings. It is unlikely you'd find any problems with bugs there.



Good luck!

Irene

Answer 3

i think the bed bug issue is downtown eastside and some parts of westend where there are older buildings. Yaletown is a newer area, new condos, clean streets, coffee shops, little boutiques, restaurants....its a nice place and i wouldnt feel under threat walking around there. Of course, you should be careful walking anywhere when its late at night and yaletown is no different. But generally its a safe area.

Answer 4

downtown Vancouver isn't that bad if you like the city it's actually a very good place to live. But I hate the city many homeless, the air isn't fresh.. But walking around downtown Vancouver at night isn't really dangerous My friends and I back at age 15 used to walk around at night 2am-6am... hah anyways you have to be careful when in empty streets because I have a friend that got jumped but the police caught the guy, never happened to me however.



My favorite place is Burnaby Mountain, great communities, a city practically in the mountains with rivers running down forests to roam, police station nearby and fire-stations. The kids don't fight often here it's extremely rare for a gang fight.

Answer 5

Yaletown is nice Mother loves it