Victoria is dear to my heart because I'm born and raised here. I love ♥Vancouver Island and the islanders

Buy a house in Victoria! HAHAHAHAHAHA thats the best joke ive heard this week.

Library

Beach

Rec centre

Pub

Park

Dollar store

Post office , grocery store, gas station, Timmy’s, Starbucks, thrift store, pharmacy, book store , liquor store, normal restaurant, bank, and bathrooms -somewhere.

Another great video, thanks, professional and informative as always. I'm currently working my way through all if not most of your videos, I mentioned on one of your other videos that we're planning a move from Scotland in the next 5 years or so, do you have videos covering schools and hospitals? the reason I ask is that when we eventually move my partner will work in the medical profession and our son will be middle school age, so we'll be looking for somewhere with a reasonable commute to schools and hospitals all the while maintaining good availability of amenities.

Great video very professional and informative, I look forward to more greater Victoria videos, we're planning a move in the next 5 years or so, will definitely look you up when looking for property.

Its very very pretty. But its unlivably expensive for everyone but the elite. My partner and i lived a middle class life there for a decade. Couldnt even begin to look at a house and were renovicted a couple times. The wealthy retirees live in large 3 bedroom houses and the young families and working people are crammed into apartments. I worked i. Real estate for my last 7 years there so i saw it every day. We moved away and bought a home in 6 months. Victoria is a nice place to visit and a great example of what's gone wrong with our society.

Victoria is a joke. Your mayor hasn't helped matters. He's brutal.

Great content! Our 1961 home in Gordon Head, bought in 2000 for 280 000 has had a 50 year metal roof installed, oil tank removed from the basement(you never mentioned that oil tank issue) , convert to 200 amp,(most of these older homes are 120 amp)convert to high energy electric, all new windows(you never mentioned the old crappy windows) perimeter drains replaced(after the atmospheric river....) stucco replaced. There is still lino with tile over it in the basement because we did not want to deal with the asbestos potential.

What about mice, rats, asbestos, ect, to get rid of asbestos you are forced to kiss government ass, and pay an fortune to shit ship to mainland

Are they not wonderful teardowns to build new expensive crap housing?

Needs serious decorating

Beautiful place, but definitely upper class. Very instructive vídeo ❤

one nice walks in VICTORIA OR WEST MARINA ALONG CAUSEWAY AND MCMUALAY POINT IT USED TO BE THAT YOU COULD WALK PASS CLIFF AND ACTUALLY FIND OLD GUN INPLACEMENTS AT MCMUALAY POINTAND AS FOR SAXE POINT IS GOOD VANTAGE POINT FOR THE USA NAVY VESSELS TO LOOK THERE LOTS BIKE TRAILS AROUND AND I GREW UP AND WAS BORN IN VICTORIA BC

The city is becoming a crack head paradise, lots of crime. Roads are blocked with heavy traffic, bike lanes are excessive and many bikers are bastards that do not obey traffic laws.

Excellent review.

It actually doesn't rain in Victoria as much as people think; especially during the summer. Halifax gets more rain than Victoria usually.

Gordon head

Fantastic video Alex! Even more reasons on why a home inspection is a no brainer.

In the poly-b segment for 1990-2006, you show homes in View Royal. Are you implying that those homes in those subdivisions have that type of plumbing?

Alex, can you make a video of the fastest gentrification neighborhoods and area in the GVA?

What about lead based paint? And hot water baseboard heating? What risks and cautions regarding toxic materials and longevity apply with these? Very informative video. Having worked in the building trades and encountered numerous issues , I can testify that romantic notions and dollar - wise practicality are common head on collisions.

Great video thanks. I'm currently working my way through your Capitol Map Series, my partner and I are in the process of planning a move from Scotland to BC, Victoria or should I say the greater Victoria area is looking like the place we want to be but it's hard to make a decision having never actually been there, your videos are a great help. By the time we move our son will be 12 or 13 years old, it would be helpful if you could suggest places best to raise a family (Schools, Activities, Sports).

Pretty good places

Video well done!

James bay!

amazing video. I could be posted here for army. really informative

for the last time I only love i inner city i dont know where sooke langford is anywhere years ago the city tried to make me homeless and or live sooke and i fled them in terror i would like them arrested tho and to be returned to my actual city tho for the very last time NOT SOOKE OR FERNWOOD OR LANGLY Im from the inner city not somewhere creepy you want me to live because you all want to be inner city victoria bye and thanks for abandoning me for 13 years because I wont live in sooke get arrested or somwhere fucking weird I already did with you it was hell there was rattraps in the houses always funny roomates and never did I feel at home anywhere but the inner city I knew where i was before I foreget about you all for good Ide like my case brought up and your whole city arrested on tthe case somwhere cheap to experiment on me on the sidelines is not what I wanted away from my people and by always offerering only that you made me homeless in victoria when i was doing well I had to flee you a person with mental illness because I thought of drinking a mud puddle when I was in that tent at blanshard courts I went so crazy trying to explain i am not native that way I fled your city and it will be for good if your city does not get arrested and my missing person does not have the rights to live somewhere safe to live close to my family I will come back as a homeless and take to to the highest courts laughing at what you keep offering me homeless for what over 50 thousand worth crap to trash and have you arrested or my innocent non redlisted killed homeless fleeings asses right to return to my hometown and not live anymore in surrey because you want me too i seriosly want you to go to jail and so I can return to my home of inner not out outer victoria as this was nothing but crimes on me from the beginning of renting to me i hope the feds are arrested and i can go to not where i have lived in asylem because you killed me out of my home to be creepy government to my people after you stole all of my money committing crimes on me at my every housing I have i right to go home if I have to take all of you fuckers to courts you cant take a child born there and just kill them homeless when they turn 22 because you want all there money and them to be poor now we know that is a crime at large so has this been a 15 year crime where you have been keeping me too is crime telling rumors you kill people who go to surrey guess where they keep me now hat I fucking never wanted to live over a house thats right I hear your city betrayed me and innocent boy and left me for death over there housing times almost up

This is great!

Esquimalt is an #1 for me as I live in Esquimalt I also would like to say that my high school EHS Esquimalt High School is pretty well known to being one of the best high schools in greater Victoria because we have so many opportunities and programs and it’s also very very safe love it❤

Very valuable video, thank you. I would love to see more videos like this, again specifically about the different eras of homes in BC like you've done here. I learned a lot and I have a feeling there is so much more to learn. In Vancouver/Victoria, it seems the only way to get a nice property is to buy an older home. I am particularly frustrated by this. New homes are simply not appealing to me. They fill the entire lot and are massive (unnecessarily so), built too close together, small windows with dark interiors, lazy "open" floor concepts, and then the entire neighbourhood is absent of any trees. It's so frustrating. On top of that the number of detached homes will continue to dwindle every year. Thanks again for this video.

Another excellent video Alex! For anyone looking to buy a home in Victoria, I strongly recommend that you consider Alex. Check out my Google review for more details regarding my experience with Alex when recently relocating to Victoria. maps.app.goo.gl/BiwMkjKyaw22KoNH6?g_st=ic

If you love old homes as much as I do, I hope you appreciate some of these insights! What do you want to know next about Victoria BC???

Just wondering why haven't you made any videos in 2024?

I just saw this on my view list this morning. I don't understand what you 'hate' about bike lanes?

just another greasy realtor presentation. Victoria has just been flooded with fly by night realtors just out to make a quick buck of a city they don't care about. Alot like the politicians who weren't born here and should be ashamed of the decay that has plagued the city. I hope this SLICK presentation talks about the war on cars in this city and the discrimination that every municipality has towards the handicapped and the elderly.

lived i Fairfield BC

I want to mive back to BC. I was also a kid there many years agoI want to move to East Saanich BC

I grew up in BC and want to go back

So twisty, winding roads? If so, that sounds like a pro to me.

Please move to Calgary

This guy is an idiot.

Nice video Thanks

Most expensive city in Canada - Victoria BC

HI Alex. Thank you for this content. I will be moving into Victoria very soon and I would like to ask a few questions. You touched on the cost of placing your car on a Ferry. Please clarify: would this mean that I can have my car transported from Victoria to Vancouver on a Ferry? And if so, can I buy a car in Vancouver, drive it to the Ferry station, and bring it into Victoria via the Ferry? Secondly, I am very grateful for the comprehensive video you did on the Victoria BC Neighbourhood Guide. If one were to get a place in either Esquimalt or Victoria worth 850k (which I see your website already lists), with a down payment of 250k, what is the least salary one has to earn need to get approval for a mortgage loan (for the remaining 600k)? Also, can one reach you via your office phone? Thank you.