You can tell a neighbourhood by it’s bank. This isn’t new to me, but three weeks of intensive house hunting solidified the pecking order:
- CIBC = ghetto
- Scotiabank = ultra ghetto
- RBC = entrepreneur’s and students
- HSBC = wealthy
- Vancity = trendy
- Prospera = wanna-be trendy
And I’m sure there’s more…
As my friend pointed out, however, this trend does not apply to convenience stores. Somehow a 7-Eleven or Mac’s seems to ratchet itself into almost any neighbourhood corner.
And for the record… my new neighbourhood has a CIBC - my bank for the last 15 years. Comments from the crowd?
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You left out the payday-loan shops - the ones where people sit behind bullet-proof glass and lend out money at 60% interest… I think those share the ultra-ghetto category with CIBC.
So what you are saying is that you are ghetto?
Well if CIBC makes me ghetto, I found a fact that seals the deal: CIBC is just around the corner, and across the street is a Scotiabank.
Trev, I have a CIBC account too, which means that I am ghetto too. I’m a ghetto research fellow at Oxford…straight up, yo.
Dood, you still have told me where you are living…I am guessing, hmm, actually there was a CIBC/Soctia bank in the VGH area!? plus, it’s close to kelly…am i close?