Central Victoria
The inland belt between downtown and Oak Bay: North Park, Fernwood and Jubilee, three walkable villages with almost no through traffic.
3 neighbourhoods in the belt between downtown and the Oak Bay border, none of them on a highway and none of them large. North Park is the smallest neighbourhood in the city and the cheapest; Fernwood is the one that famously bought its own commercial block rather than watch it be redeveloped; Jubilee is organised around Royal Jubilee Hospital, the biggest employer on this side of the city.
These are the most walkable non-downtown addresses in Victoria — a village core each, at Quadra Village, Fernwood Square and the west end of Oak Bay Avenue — and the housing is correspondingly mixed: pre-war houses, converted duplexes and low-rise apartment blocks on the same street. Renters outnumber owners in all three.
Fernwood
The Belfry Theatre, the Fernwood Inn and a square of 1900s houses around them — the neighbourhood that bought its own commercial block rather than watch it be sold.
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Jubilee
The hospital neighbourhood: Royal Jubilee, the west end of Oak Bay Avenue, and a grid of pre-war bungalows between them.
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North Park
The smallest neighbourhood in the city and the least expensive — Royal Athletic Park, the Save-On-Foods arena, and Quadra Village at the top of it.
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