British Columbia real estate

I went to U of British Columbia for 2 years way back, and have tried since then to get a job there and move back. Latest attempt is 3 visits in past year to a coastal logging town near Vancouver (which is too pricy for me I think right now). Every time I talk to real estate people or locals about it I am impressed at the gulf between them and me about how I feel about the place. Real estate in BC to me is inherently unethical unless one is intensely carrying out a plan to reverse the impact of real estate on this amazing surviving temperate rainforest. In most of Europe the old growth is reduced to little grottos with an understandable mystical element - the relatively intact natural world having been lost in Roman times or in the centuries thereafter, alnog wiht the lion, the wolf, or reduced to a shadow of its former self, like the timid European brown bear.