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Originally Posted by Huggles
How is Toronto these days?
I see you're on Vancouver Island... I lived in Ladysmith for a year while managing a local pallet yard... what a fucking disaster! Was fun as hell of a job though...
Last time I went downtown Vancouver for a bike ride of the seawall and dinner... holy fuck downtown was so filthy and so much busier and just all around much shittier than before COVID. It makes all the beautiful people stand out so much more from all the squalor and street shitting!
I'm in Kelowna now, it's nice here, soulless, but nice!
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I'm still on Vancouver Island, just north of Nanaimo.
Ladysmith, eh? The "woodworking" yards were total hellholes. Chemainus included.
I spent 5 years in Vancouver back in the early eighties. The city went downhill after Expo '86.
What's not love about the seawall? I spent my first summer fishing at Siwash Rock. After living landlocked in Ontario, the idea of taking public transit to go fishing, was a hoot.
And packing dogfish on the back of a bike rack, cycling past the ladies in fur coats on Georgia Street only added to the surrealism.
I did my time in East End, when you could still walk to downtown without worrying about getting tussled.
Now everyone is packing onto Vancouver Island. Next stop for me is Gorge Harbour on Cortes Island.
