I love you Halifax! I lived here for over a decade, and started taking you for granted: the buses were always off-schedule; the small size was starting to cramp my style; there was nothing left for me to explore. I left for BC thinking, this is it Halifax–we’re breaking up. Boy was I wrong! BC is fine but crazy expensive, and the Pacific Ocean is no match for the sheer sublimity of my fierce Atlantic and the awe-inspiring blizzards it whips up. The people, my loving friends who never lost touch with me after I defected…I missed you so much, Halifax. I’m home now. Home. And I’m so grateful that even though I broke up with you, you still love me and take me back with open arms. I’ll never leave you again. Marry me? 🙂
—Contrite, now appreciative
This article appears in May 7-13, 2009.
LOL! Ditto..except I am from the “wet” coast..well the island actualy, and I would never forsake NS for B.C. This is paradise for me. Why? cheap real estate, fantastic people, ocean, ocean, ocean, lakes and rivers..all in a small package..and the broadband intenet and diglital cable is sooooo much faster than the larger cities, and yes, it was here first believe it or not. I have friends back home who actualy believe that we still are on dial up, have no box stores (sadly we do *snif*) or HDTV. The sterotype still persists, that we all wear yellow sou’westers, are toothless aging white-bearded fishermen, who smoke corncob pipes. When friends and relatives come for a visit, they are gob smacked. “You paid HOW much for your house?..how many acres??? no WAY!” …I know, I know, “ooo but milk and some grocery items are sooo expensive!”..not $200,000 difference for ocean or lakefront house kinda expensive :~)
hey flyingbrick your over here too, great comments i concur