Londoners Livia Boumeester and Louisa Stevenson-Hamilton were so taken with Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood during a visit two years ago, they decided to stay for a while and leave their corporate jobs behind them.
“It was super relaxed, really young. Everyone was just kind of hanging out,” said Boumeester of the beachside residential neighbourhood West of the city’s downtown.
The best friends, both 27, worked for a year in hospitality at Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club and used their free time to explore British Columbia and Canada.
“The idea of being able to ski and go to the beach and to have all of that whilst living in a city was just such a novel idea coming from London,” said Stevenson-Hamilton.
