South Vancouver communities

4 local areas along the Fraser slope, mostly built out between the 1940s and the 1960s and still the city's most family-oriented ground: bigger lots, quieter streets, and main streets on Fraser, Victoria and Main south of 41st that serve the blocks around them rather than the whole city. The subdivision that set the pattern was federal. In the late 1940s the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation expropriated land here and in Sunset and built about 1,100 houses for returning veterans, so full of young families that locals called it diaper town, and Victoria-Fraserview still has the second-highest average household size of any Vancouver local area at 3.0 people. Fraserview Golf Course, cut along the bluff by more than 600 Depression relief workers from 1934, is the other thing on the slope that has not moved.

Two things are changing the south slope: the Canada Line turned Marpole into a transit neighbourhood, and the River District in Killarney is building a whole new riverfront community on former industrial land, so check construction timelines before assuming today's quiet street stays that way. Check the transit question as well, because it is the one this side of the city loses on. There is no SkyTrain station inside Victoria-Fraserview, and the R4 41st Avenue RapidBus that has run from Joyce-Collingwood to UBC since January 2020 is the closest thing to rapid transit the area has. If the address is near the bluff, look at the river in early June, when the interior snowpack is still coming down and the Fraser freshet peaks.