h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Vancouver may hold the record for being in more films as anywhere but here. My wife is presently working on a horror schlock film that is greatly anticipated (name witheld to protect her reputation) which is set in New York, Colorado, and Los Angeles. I was on the set of another yesterday which is shooting it's interiors here and exteriors next week in New York. Vancouver has been almost every (other) location you can imagine. *X Files* (when it was shot here) was a great example. Those of us who live here often chuckled at the "FBI Headquarters" or "UN building" that we drove by weekly. Not to mention all the other parts of the US our neighbourhoods represented. It's no accident that the first season in LA shot in deserts and areas with palm trees and then tried to make the scenery lush by adding vast lawns of (obviously) sodded areas.
My absolute favourite however is "Rumble In the Bronx" which was Jackie Chan's first breakthrough in North America. How many people really think that the Bronx in New York has a magnificent snow-capped mountain range nearby? Or sandy beaches near down-town? The list goes on and on which is not surprising since Vancouver is #3 after LA and New York in film production in North America. No surprise either that Los Angeles film unions are fighting to limit production here even though they are ignoring Australia, the UK, or even the non-union states like Carolina.