Why you'd want to live in Burnaby
As Vancouver expanded and became a metropolis, it was one of the first-tier bedroom-community suburbs of Vancouver itself, along with the city and district of North Vancouver, and Richmond. During the suburbinozation of Burnaby "Mid-Century Vernacular" homes were built by the hundreds to cope with population increase, and these houses are still very common in the city. But Burnaby has shifted in character over time from rural to suburban to urban.