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Originally Posted by YUNEMUS
How would it affect Bellingham if the boundaries were like on the map above?
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Bellingham would be a bedroom community of Vancouver, so it might have more people, but its stature and character would be diminished. Bellingham’s purpose is to be a regional centre for people in Washington state who live north of the Seattle metro along I-5.
A smaller role of Bellingham used to be catering to Vancouver area cross-border shoppers, which would also disappear.
So it would be more like an Abbotsford and less like a Nanaimo.
OT, but between its downtown and the charming Fairhaven district, Bellingham has better historic architecture than any BC cities except Vancouver, Victoria and maybe Nelson. If it were a Vancouver bedroom community it would have none of this.