How I miss thee

service? i did all my moving after i got on my own, itchy feet. vancouver, winnipeg, yukon, interior, vancouver again, bermuda, minnesota, vancouver (geeze like a pinball) and now here. this is where i stay, although i will be moving again within the province. haven’t decided where yet. but has to be on the water, and no neighbours within hearing.

hey boru, yes, sask and mb have gone up in price….less than 10 years ago you could have bought an entire town in sask (it was up for sale, no joke) i very briefly considered the prairies again when i was ‘retiring’ from van, just to get bang for the buck. but cannot live without the ocean. big price jump from 2008 to now in bc. post olympics.

yup, those long dreary winters of unending drizzle, the sky always dark grey. i actually liked that! suited my antisocial nature. i loved vancouver before it exploded with population. and before they started tearing down entire neighbourhoods to build ‘monster houses’. all the trees gone. i have pics of when i was a baby and the snow higher than the car. then there were decades when there was little snow, and now it’s coming ’round to snow again. last couple years there the skytrain would have to shut down as temperatures dropped and the doors would freeze – it wasn’t designed for that. and i had to buy snow boots in 2005. the snow lingered for 2 weeks, no thaw. i made the decision in 2005 to move to NS, and started a daily temperature comparison between Vanc and south shore/yarmouth (my intended destination) after two years i realized there was little difference in temperatures overall. van spring comes earlier, but NS fall lingers much longer. and the amount of sunshine is far greater here. climate chart is 6B in vanc and 6A here. pockets of micro climate are the same. and yes, 2 inches of snow shut the city down, no snow plows. no snow tires. steep hills. people abandon their vehicles sideways in the road. there’s a place for everyone, everyone has different preferences. i love Nova Scotia, it’s beautiful to me.

boru, i don’t think happiness is where you live, and i don’t think it’s who you live with either. happiness is self made. no one else can ‘make’ you happy. they can please you, and you can be happy to be with them, but they are not making you happy. if that were possible (splitting hairs here) that would make the person capable of creating happiness in anyone. they would be some kind of happy-producing machine. you have to respond yourself in some way, to something in another person, that creates happiness. look at some truly miserable people, who are never ‘happy’ with anything or anyone. is there something wrong about everything and everyone? no. the problem lies in the unhappy person. there is no magic bullet. no magic person who can come along and ‘make’ another person happy. now, slightly different is something i do believe in, if you are in a dreadful relationship, living in a mansion in tropical paradise will not make up for it. and living with someone you love utterly, can make any hovel quite cosy. but again, the response is internal. if someone is very materialistic, they may be much happier with the mansion and a creep, than the hovel and someone who loves them. it gets a little squidgy here, as i can’t really fathom someone loving someone who is above all else materialistic, but there ya go, there is someone for everyone.