we're just trying to find a park and I just saw cops chasing one guy and threw him to the ground
really good introduction to East Hastings Pretty spot on if you ask me we're just gonna send people
watch from the coca leaf Cafe it's called it's got some pretty interesting items in it [Music]
okay we're just about to head out for the day to run some errands we had a lot of people asking
us in the comments because we came to Canada what happened to the combivan in Mexico we
covered it in our q a in case you missed it uh the purchase fell through we had just a couple
of obstacles that we couldn't get over and we're on a tight schedule to get up here to Canada but
luckily we've found the perfect RV we found the perfect RV here in Vancouver it's a little over
our budget but it's like a home on Wheels and we'll have the full video coming out in
a couple of days so you can check that out so we are doing van life nothing's changed we just had
to fly up here and buy an RV here but before we do that Mandy needs to exchange her Australian
driver's license to a Canadian one so that we can get it insured and registered in her name
so we're going to go ahead and do that and then we've got a pretty interesting Cafe we're gonna
head to that's on East Hasting Street which in itself is like a zoo we haven't been there yet
we've heard it's gotten worse if you don't know about East Hastings it's like we're a
lot of homeless people and a lot of drug problems happen um so we're going to see if it is as bad
as what we've been told but this Cafe looks super interesting and you'll see why when we get there
[Music] thank you we've had to do so many adult things since we've
been back in Canada not really we went to the bank yesterday
now we're going to an insurance place and I hate it thank God weed's legal here
Australian roads and I had a picture of a Dodge Ram
everyone in the comments was saying like how you must have a small
you could drive one of those and this dude was like yeah or a big Caravan that you need to touch
that's what they're uses for it they're not even big it's just truck Australia is so funny like
they think that anything American is like just so bad won't fit monster truck in a monster truck
yeah hello
[Music] all right I just renewed my license I almost got put back on to like Learners type
like new driver thing because that's what I was when I left Australia eight years or
left for Australia eight years ago and um but thank goodness the lady liked me
and decided I have enough driving history because I've been doing it for long enough
she wanted the original copy of her driving history which was
which was by Queensland transport so the original copy would just be us printing it off and bringing
it in in paper form yeah Rich Man 2023 let's go over this paper video anyway unfortunately
it takes about four weeks for my license to get sent out so I just have a little piece of paper
right now so we kind of have to hang around to be able to get that in the mail just another thing
that bit irritating there's an ordinary shop all right boring adult chores have been done
we're going to head to a cafe on East Hastings Street if you don't know about East Hastings it's
pretty Infamous for having the highest homeless population in Canada we're just gonna go hang
out at a cafe there and just see what we see the cafe in itself is pretty interesting yeah it's
sells really interesting things we'll just let you guys have a look [Music]
thank you [Music]
bubbles is a part of Canadian history
it's just not right it's really eerie here something's foggy [Music]
foreign
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I just made it
already tastes like potatoes just make you feel good it looks like one of those pee test your cups
is that much
It's Like A Familiar Taste
so it's not only a dispenser it's a cafe as well so again
another roast beef and gouda toasted sandwich looks pretty good yeah it's delicious actually
very good I didn't order a sandwich there was only one left but really good has horseradish
on it I haven't had a horseradish in ages I forgot about it that's about how much I love it
this place is a must come to I think in Vancouver very unique and
um yeah just something you come from Australia it's very different you would never get a place
like this in Australia I don't think unless Australia becomes really Progressive with drugs
it's taking a while it doesn't seem like it'll happen so that was the coca leaf Cafe which pretty
interesting place I was talking to the guy there and he said it's been open for about two years
and I know that mushrooms well I think mushrooms have been decriminalized in Canada I'm pretty sure
so it's sort of a mushroom dispensary but he said it's actually really operating as a cafe
and it's kind of like a agreement between like the government and Vancouver Police where they they
just don't really worry about it um they sell coca leaf tea and coffee which if you don't know what
that is that's obviously what makes cocaine so it's a stimulant instead of caffeine they've got
all types of mushrooms they've got peyote plants in there they've got like micro dose
of LSD everything's pretty much micro dose LSD all types of mushrooms everything except weed in
there right yeah I didn't see anything there was a weed dispensary next next door yeah there aren't
it's only in Vancouver though like anywhere else it wouldn't be able to be open so I don't know
what the law the rules are but seem to be just chilling yeah it's working yeah it's pretty cool
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thank you we're just trying to find a park and I just saw cops chasing one guy and threw them
to the ground really good introduction to East Hastings Pretty spot on if you ask me
we'd heard that uh Hastings got worse in the last
few years and it definitely seems like it has hey yeah definitely
I don't know if it was ever good though like it was bad when I was here like 10 12 years ago
I think most from Frost people in Canada come over to Vancouver because it's the
warmest right yeah in the winter yeah um so many like I don't understand
how they can't do anything about it like it's it's a mental illness problem and a
drug problem but the drugs is because of the mental illness they're just very sick people
and I don't understand how they can't help them yeah it's really sad you don't really
we've been to like all over southeast Asia and
in Australia like you don't see that everywhere in North America though and in Mexico you don't see
it nope but in North America like every capital city there's a certain area where there's just
so many homeless people and they're all mentally ill on drugs and I'm not sure why it's only US and
Canada yeah it's interesting isn't it so I'm just looking at the homeless population in DC
um and which city has the most and obviously it's Vancouver um it says that Vancouver has
2095 homeless people currently residing in it just from what we just drove through it felt like
a whole lot more than that it says 644 reside in Surrey and 209 in Langley but there's no data for
just East Hastings which is kind of interesting apparently news came out yesterday that they're
going to stop the encampment so there's like you can see like tents people just camping on
the street and I guess they're gonna put them in shelters I don't know what they're gonna do but
they're not going to let them do that anymore um we are reckon we saw thousands of homeless just
now yeah and who knows how many more there are and then they've got police have like barricaded off a
section of the road and there we saw probably about a dozen police it seemed to be just
surrounding the area and I guess making sure she doesn't get too far yeah
this is a golf course
there
healthy detached trees
[Applause] man he's just been touching these trees all morning saying here
is what it is for you all right we're moth your reflection [Music]