anyone here live in Vancouver BC?

Yeah, our housing prices are a bit crazy. Check out this blog. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in Canada though and very few places in the US. Vancouver is beautiful. So for now, I'm quite happy with my $350,000 700 square foot apartment.

I live in the West End and would have a hard time moving from this location. It's downtown, close to public transport, a couple of blocks from the beach, near awesome restaurants, good bike rides, close to Stanley Park. If I moved though, I'd look at South Granville area (lack of grocery stores within walking distance) or Kitsilano or Pt. Grey neighbourhood. Commercial drive and Main street areas are popular too.

I don't have children so can't help you out with schools, but there's this report on schools in the GVRD. 

Where will your job be?

I used to live in Vancouver, in Kitsilano, but when we needed to move, we found that having children is a liability. So we moved to Port Moody, about 20-30 minutes from Downtown. For the same rent, the place is almost 3 times as big.

I can probably help with some of the i nfo you need, since I was in the same situation 9 years ago, when moving to Vancouver.

By the way, good question above. Where will you be working?