RIP Vancouver.  I am glad I lived there when it was possible to rent a fairly cheap apartment in Kits, Kerrisdale or the West End.  It is still physically lovely, but even that is fading as the trees are cut and the towers go higher.  More crowds, etc.   How will the city function as municipal workers, hotel staff, retail clerks and all kinds of others leave?  Vancouver without artists, musicians, hippies, dopers???  How sad.  Other ultra-rich enclaves like Monaco, etc. may function, but they are smaller, and cheaper accommodations exist, it seems, nearby.  Maybe the model is London - insane prices in the trendy core, but a huge rail system - but that works when you have 10 million people in a flat place.   And finally, note that the supposed "strong economy" that Christy Clark touted is based on the inflow of rich buyers itself - if/when the flow ends, and the construction stops, that is lot of folks out of work.