Fraserhood

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About this Neighborhood

The Fraser strip has been doing the work that Main Street gets credit for, with less posturing about it. Thirty-five restaurants above the Vancouver cohort average, 13 cafes running nearly double the 7.2 average — the coffee culture here is real and local. Grocery at 6 is below average at 7.45, which means one extra trip per week but nothing critical. The flood-zone clearance is confirmed in the climateResilience data, which matters in a city where Marpole and parts of Kerrisdale still carry that risk. Social glue at 76 — dwell of 19 against transactional of 6 — signals a neighborhood with genuine third places rather than throughput venues. No courts is the gap, dropping the 15-minute completeness to 83%. The Mott Haven (Queens) doppelganger connection reveals the shared logic: immigrant-anchored, food-forward, mid-density strips doing everything right without the corresponding attention.

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