Thought I'd ask on here since some Beyonders are well travelled people, either for work or leisure.
I am getting real close to getting a work transfer to Vancouver.
Problem is...you guessed it, where to live?
Money is not so much of any issue (we're already priced out of actual houses but can still easily afford condos/townhouses) as the fact that we have 3 small dogs that we will not give up.
Anyways, so far we've only been able to find actual detached houses that will rent to us...townhomes usually have strata/bylaw rules that ban more than 2 dogs.
So, last night, I thought about AirBnb long term stays (private 1 bedroom suites with running water, kitchen, laundry, cottages, coach houses things like that). We'd be able to move around whenever we want and can live in some interesting places on the island too (my work will be WFH for a long while yet). And I also really want to start living without owning "stuff and things" (like furniture, tvs, kitchen stuff, etc), we'd just buy a vehicle there and bring our clothes and computers and anything else we'd normally bring on a holiday.
My question is more the legalities of it when it comes to things like healthcare and car insurance and what not, because if we do the AirBnb thing, for let's say years, are we technically considered "BC residents"? I'm sure there are a few things like that to think about and I'm hoping some Beyonders will know (we will be selling our house in Airdrie here and essentially cutting all ties and no longer have a permanent address in Alberta and if AirBnB, we won't have a permanent address in BC either, for mail, I was just going to rent a PO Box in Vancouver).