Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:29 am
Maggie I didnt see your earlier question about Chilliwack. I think Chilliwack is really a pretty area with the mountain scenery, river, Cultus Lake, but it is just so much further from Vancouver than Aldergrove. Chilliwack has also risen a lot in price the past couple of years, like everywhere. Aldergrove always had a bad rap and reputation, but it was really the lack of a good water system and difficulty in finding land to be developed that is not in the ALR that has held back Aldergrove. Now the water is in place as of quite recent, there IS development going on. It just makes sense when you consider the distance along HWY 1 is only ten more minutes past the 200th st exit. My best bet to invest is Aldergrove in the lower mainland, and Union Bay on Vancouver Island. . There is crime everywhere now, Langley near 200th is having shootings and such. Other than petty break ins by homeless people around Aldergrove, (which is easy to take care of with a good home security system and locks on your garden sheds and gates etc) there has been no more serious crime in Aldergrove than anywhere else in the Fraser Valley lately, I fact I would say there is almost less. Its not nearly as busy as Langley or Abbotsford, its like a nice quiet bedroom community in comparison surrounded by farmland so likely will never get TOO big or busy like the other areas. Aldergrove’s time has come, so has Union Bay. They have both waited a long time and WATER was the problem. Reputation is old news....due to the cost of real estate everywhere now and all the new investors coming in those old rumours are just not going to matter anymore. Its all about dollars now.