Cool! Well I'll most likely be posting a vaguely pathetic I'm-here-and-I-don't-know-anyone type post when I arrive in September and hoping that people take pity on me and say "we'll talk to you at this night out, just look for the people with long hair and black clothes" in a useful (ahem) sort of way, so watch out for me!
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Brit moving to Vancouver in September...
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Public: Anyone can view. Hi...I discovered this site while I was looking to see what's going on in the BC/Vancouver goth scene. I'm from Sheffield, in England, and I'm going to be spending 3-4 months working in Vancouver (from mid-September) and it'd be fantastic to get to know the clubs & bars and maybe some people before I come over there.
Hmm...I'm always a bit suspicious of these introductory type things, it's a bit too much like some kind of audition or interview for my liking. What can I say? I'm a girl, I'm 25, I teach French & Spanish in high school, and I like most alternative music as well as just goth (although my dress sense tends to lean more towards the gothy side of things so people are often surprised when *shock! horror!* they find out that I listen to music that isn't very goth at all...). I do a bit of DJing at goth nights where I live, I love travelling, and I'm stupidly impatient to get back to Vancouver. I've travelled around BC for a few weeks before (I lived in Quebec for 2 years and before I went home to England I spent 3 months on buses trying to see as much of the country as I could before I left) and I always wanted to come back, so I can't wait!
Anyway, I'll hopefully get to meet some of you on nights out when I get to Vancouver, but it'd be good to get to know people a bit beforehand so I'm not going out totally on my own and standing around like a sad case hoping someone takes pity on me and talks to me. I'd like to think that I'd just bounce up and talk to people randomly, but I know myself, I'm too much on the shy side for my liking so it's not very realistic! So how friendly & open is the Vancouver goth scene? Is it a case of everyone knowing everyone else and being a bit cliquey (like some places I've been to...) or am I going to be able to just go to a goth night on my own and end up chatting to people? What do you think?
Oh, and if anyone knows of a cheap apartment/room for rent in a shared house for the time I'm going to be there then it'd be good to know...the people I'll be working for (I'm a teacher) have said they can sort me out a place to live, but who knows what kind of people I'll end up sharing with if I leave it up to someone else?! I'd rather live with people I have at least a couple of things in common with than just some random person...
Yay more gothy Vancouver people....
Sanctuary and Sin City are both pretty good places to meet people. Sin City is a little different but in my opinion more open than Sanctuary. Sanctuary was fun but a little cliquey - people tended to open up after midnight more though.
Or maybe it was the fact that after midnight I was having too much fun to care and was just talking to people anyway.
Can't help you on the housing but my friends aren't that cliquey if you wanted company and we're going to one of these events.