Crime is often overlooked but whether it's drugs, gangs, B&E's, assaults, robberies, we have serious issues. Four days after Xmas 2011 - 4 murders. And let's all not forget the 'Highway of Tears' between Prince George and Prince Rupert where up to 43 girls and women have been murdered or have disappeared.
Nov 24, 2011 -- With nearly 140000 kids growing up in poverty in B.C., the province has among the worst child poverty. The proportion of B.C. children living in poverty has risen, marking the eighth straight year that the province has claimed the highest after-tax rate in the country.
Property prices - The quarterly report says detached bungalows in Vancouver were especially expensive, with the cost of mortgages payments, utilities and property taxes equivalent to 92.5 per cent of a typical household's monthly income.That's up 10.4 percentage points from the previous quarter.
BC has natural beauty but if you travel you can find many places also full of natural beauty, it takes more than that to make a place - the best place on Earth, and in quality of life for hundreds of thousands of our population we fall short.
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