Wood burning fireplace

[Beau Walsh]

I'm looking for some opinions and help. I recently purchased a apartment in downtown Vancouver Canada a few blocks from English bay, in one of the nicer locations in Vancouver. The unit is small 660 sq feet. It was build in 1977 and still had the original wood burning fireplace. I was going to remove it and put in a wall mounted long rectangle electric fireplace that was about 70in long with a flat screen tv above it. But everyone I've been telling this about has told me to keep the wood burning and just reface it cause they like it and think its neat or cool. To have a wood burning fireplace is rare in an apartment, at least in Vancouver. I don't even know where downtown you can even get firewood. I figure the cost of a electric fireplace or replacing the facing would be about the same so cost isn't really an issue. So should i keep it or replace it?