Hipsters?  In QB??  You've got a long wait before it "will feel like home!"  Which is why, back in the mid-90s, some people in their 40s and 50s bought in...and then moved out again. I was one of them. What forced my hand was the B.C. recession, but before I called it quits, most of my business was in Victoria, not in the "neighbourhood."  Too small and too "retirement" oriented for most active career people. And that hasn't changed much, even with "remote" home-office business.  I operated one, too, back then.

However, if you are ready to retire anyway and sitting on hugely valuable home-space anywhere in the Lower Mainland--why??