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It’s worth stepping away from the downtown peninsula with its towering office blocks, glut of hotels and bevy of restaurants; dozens of vibrant, multicultural neighborhoods await across False Creek and the Burrard Inlet. Those to the east of Main Street still maintain a certain faded countercultural … more ambience, while those to the west and on the North Shore offer upscale shopping, fashionable dining options, and pricier residential areas.