I like New Westminster. The city is so strange and mysterious. You can walk along a wooden boardwalk along side Florida-style condominiums turned into housing co-ops. There are bars and private liquor stores everywhere. You can admire an art-deco Catholic Church complete with an neon cross on the steeple. And, if you ever wanted to see Queen Anne homes un-touched from gentrification... there are quite a few left to behold.
Something inside me says that New Westminster was destined to be a beautiful city... if it were not for Vancouver, and Victoria. There's extremely rare charm & heritage in New Westminster that can not be found anywhere else... you can hear the bar fights, carriages, smell the cigar smoke, and hear the saloon piano playing long into the night.
