Vancouver

Consistently rated as one of the world’s best cities to live in, Vancouver is the perfect combination of cosmopolitan chic and amazing natural beauty, positioned as it is on the Pacific Rim. Cradled between the ocean and the Rocky Mountains, it has the joint benefits of both beaches and peaks, with a bustling port as well as the renowned ski scene at Whistler buffering an ever-expanding infrastructure of gleaming glass skyscrapers.

As a young city (Vancouver is only about 150 years old), it is to some extent still finding its feet and doesn’t play home to all that many of Canada’s big business headquarters or financial institutions. It was, however, recently named by Monocle Magazine as the best city in which to start a business. With an enviable work/life balance that would have most corporate suits weeping into their desks, an appreciation of their surroundings informs everything Vancouverites do, be it an emphasis on local produce in their world-class restaurants, or the active pursuit of health and wellbeing through hiking, skiing, sailing or yoga in their idyllic environs.

With more boutique hotels joining the swathe of big name groups along the waterfront, better spas and an ever-increasing awareness of international fashion and style, this is one city where you can almost smell the growth and opportunity.

Vancouver is a city that is undeniably on the up. And Urban Junkies and Oakley are proud to bring you the very best of this beautiful, changing, cosmopolitan city. Enjoy.