What would be the best and the suburb in Vancouver, BC area?

Question

I want to know more about :

1. The better living cost (like can find a nice apt with an affordable rent/per month == $600-$800 for 1 or 2 bedroom with spacious space)

2. Easy to find jobs (I'm interested in IT field)

3. Near Sky train (I'm not planning to buy a car yet)

4. Good environment to raise a family and kids

5. Near Mall, groceries stores (more to asian stuffs)

Thank you in advanced!!

Answer 1

try this

http://www.ownerdirect.com/accommodation...

Surrey offers reasonable rents, decent connections to skytrain and many asian geared stores and restaurants (especially punjab, korean, filipino) .    There are two large malls in the area (Central City) which is a mall connected to SFU IT campus) http://www.centralcity.ca/main/

and the Guildford Town centre.  

If by asian you mean Chinese then Richmond might be worth a look as well.

Answer 2

vancouver is very nice!

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Answer 3

Well the truth is, if you want somewhere cheap and affordable, AND near a skytrain, it's *not* going to be good for raising kids.

But basically East Vancouver and Surrey sound like the best areas for you.  There's a skytrain at Joyce Station in East Vancouver.  You can rent a basement or apartment and walk to the skytrain.  Same with Surrey.  If you're near a skytrain, then you don't need to live near your work as you can take the Skytrain to downtown very easily, and to the malls (eg Metrotown) as well.