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Psych (the TV show) was set in Santa Barbara but filmed in Vancouver. They then did an episode where the plot was that characters all took a trip to British Columbia, which I recall being amusingly meta.
It was very fun to attend UBC then immediately start recognizing bits of the campus in many TV shows - Man in High Castle, Stargate, Battlestar, and many others. They have long since fixed it but there used to be an absolutely awful/hilarious set of street view captures for UBC that were taken by accident during filming for Man in the High Castle…the entire main mall had Nazi flags up. https://ubyssey.ca/humour/ubc-n…
One of my favorite YouTube channels, Every Frame a Painting, has a video on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU
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The painting address numbers on curbs was a widespread scam in San Francisco. Grifters scammed homeowners into doing it.
What was the scam exactly? I thought curb numbers were a thing people actually had from the movies!
And Toronto is New York City.
the non politically correct answer - Vancouver allows you to sell the dream of a wonderful city, clean streets etc.
You can also tell if something was shot in Canada by all the Canadian actors all over the place. I recognize so many people from X-Files, and so many other shows.
Swear I recognized location/trees from TV show The Magicians in the latest adaptation of Shogun(standing in for Japan).